Posts
- A visit from a ‘Southern Belle’
- “Accountable” how?
- “BottleDrop:” Why it matters
- “Going forward:” What?
- “In Winter’s Grip II”
- “In Winter’s Grip III:” The Aftermath
- “Lethal take”? Translation please
- “Not afraid”? Easy for us to say
- “Right to rest”? Wrong approach!
- “The price of ignorance”?
- “Toxics” in the water: What to do?
- $10,000 toward a greater front view
- $13 million to prevent sewer overflows
- $25 million for Millersburg project
- $30/hour would be twice as good
- ‘Affordable housing’ — Not on this lot
- ‘Albany Alley’: Downtown dining out back
- ‘Backflow’ dispute started with a tipster
- ‘Bike boulevard’ idea stalls for lack of interest
- ‘Canna’ operation changes course
- ‘Catenary’ or not: More city lights
- ‘Cheese grater’? That project’s off
- ‘Climate crisis’ and the loss of freedom
- ‘Climate-friendly’ areas: An impossible goal
- ‘Community solar’ catching rays off Hwy. 20
- ‘Crossing’: No we can’t
- ‘East anchor’: A councilman’s idea
- ‘Enhanced enforcement area:’ What signs mean
- ‘Forever’ gets a little cheaper
- ‘Franklin Reserve’ to cut 251 oaks, keep 58
- ‘Hickory Hollow’ site plan filed
- ‘HIP’ project in South Albany: Taking a look
- ‘Honey Grove’ clears planning commission
- ‘Human relations:’ Council likes new draft
- ‘Labor of love:’ Taking care of Whitespires
- ‘Labor Temple’ will get a new name
- ‘Lights Out’ and other gifts
- ‘Live fire training’ set at house on Main
- ‘Local local:’ Save that woodland
- ‘Opera House Apartments’ getting close
- ‘Pending’? Not any more; depot deal is done
- ‘Permanent’ shortcut will stay fenced shut
- ‘Plaza street’ will add to electric bills
- ‘Rain tax’? This case proves it
- ‘Ridiculous, trashy’ barbed wire
- ‘Salmon’ riders can kill you
- ‘Scenic bikeway:’ Where the signs take you
- ‘Sharrows’ on busy highways?
- ‘Sleep driving:’ A new twist
- ‘Spruce’ apartments clear Landmarks review
- ‘The Banks’ honors indigenous people
- ‘Top climate expert’ faces prison
- ‘Under review,’ a project at Waverly School
- ‘Water war’: Lebanon talks sense
- ‘Woodland Square’ wants new name
- ‘Woodland’ no more, for now
- 100 years later: Remembering Tunnel 13
- 107 apartments OK’d at Queen and Geary
- 12 candidates file for Albany city offices
- 12 percent interest? Believe it!
- 20-mph zone on Waverly will be trimmed
- 2015: Albany’s year of the smile?
- 3 near-ruins have new owners
- 30 years in Congress: Still plugging away
- 415 First: Making it look great again
- 4th and Calapooia: Another step in this saga
- 50 years for two murders?
- 900-foot ADUs: Albany amends its code
- A “bottle bill” redemption center? Make it quick!
- A ‘derelict structure’ along the tracks
- A ‘fresh look’ at police, fire projects
- A ‘pub talk’ about smart meters
- A ‘rest’ stop on the river trail: Not yet
- A ‘test spill’ on Highway 20
- A barrier against freeway deaths
- A better bill: Rear lights on bikes
- A big calamity, but this wasn’t it
- A big day for the Waverly Duck
- A big sign would help, like ‘Tire store’
- A big waste? The details say no
- A bike idea from SoCal
- A bike ride before it got cold
- A bit of reflection on ‘hh-today’
- A blast — and much less risky
- A boost for Albany metals industry
- A bridge district, with Benton this time?
- A brief respite from the news of war
- A brighter downtown — on one street
- A busy time at the ‘Bottle Drop’
- A casualty of last week’s storm: N.A. clinic
- A century later, it still does the job
- A challenge to the bottle cooperative
- A chance to learn about work on the track
- A chance to learn something, destroyed!
- A change in speed? Hard to see
- A change is coming at former Izzy’s address
- A change of scenery across Sixth
- A child’s inquisitive mind: What’s this thing?
- A Christmas Eve ride: Beating bad weather
- A city ‘bed fee’ on assisted living?
- A city street user tax in distant future?
- A comeback for the ivory bill?
- A commitment to WHAT?
- A concrete mystery: What was this?
- A conversion that didn’t take
- A convoluted crossing story: What it means
- A crash into canal; no effect on city water
- A crossing puzzle: No pedestrians?
- A day’s report: High water and sunshine
- A dead end? It sure is…
- A delay in review of cyclist’s death
- A detour into movie history
- A different idea for a vacant store
- A dire warning about vandals
- A dog’s life on I-5
- A double take at the sight of this sign at this site
- A downtown bank branch will close
- A dubious idea for the Lyon Street Bridge
- A dying man’s wish, unfulfilled
- A facelift at Baker and First
- A facelift for the old post office/city hall
- A farm stand worth visiting
- A feast in the meadow
- A fence hole where a bridge was proposed
- A few minutes looking at bridges
- A few seconds with a humble bumblebee
- A fine afternoon for a February ride
- A fine place for getting away
- A flag, a name and the building they’re on
- A flying saucer lands on Albany street
- A foreign ‘attack’ on Oregon
- A four-day paper in Portland
- A furniture tip for City Hall
- A future bikeway and what to call it
- A future full of aerial buzzing?
- A glance of the past, from high up
- A good day to use the bike
- A good man for governor
- A good name for our time
- A good place to remember Sam’s verse
- A gratuitous plug: What a nice shop!
- A greenway people can use, and do
- A growing ‘attraction’ on the Clark Path
- A gun ‘loophole’ — really?
- A Halloween ride on the Simpson Park Trail
- A hearing on two doors: It wasn’t much
- A home base for rail maintenance work
- A homeless crisis and vagrancy troubles
- A hotbed of construction east of I-5
- A January ride: On the bike in the rain
- A job for new rain tax department
- A Landmarks verdict on siding and windows
- A life saver is recognized
- A litany of complaints about vagrants
- A little bikeway lesson: How to cross here
- A little harbor on the river? Not likely
- A little matter of stop signs
- A little plinking …
- A little pollution reminder
- A little rip in the universe?
- A little smoke on my ride …
- A lonely outpost, then and now
- A long case, for a reason
- A loss of property tax revenue
- A man who made things better
- A marker for a time long, long ago
- A memorial to a troubled man
- A message for the council
- A mid-valley destination: Helmick Park
- A milestone at Edgewater Village
- A Millersburg ride: The tanks are history
- A million dollars looks for housing solutions
- A musical kind of place?
- A mysterious flying object
- A mystery crop, but only to me
- A mystery: What happened to ‘Henderson Grove’?
- A neglected lake near Albany
- A new addition on the Dave Clark Path
- A new chapter for the old St. Francis
- A new dialysis clinic in Albany
- A new dwelling on N.E. Water Avenue
- A new guide to Albany’s history
- A new home for six women
- A new hope for O&C timber lands?
- A new hope for O&C timber lands?
- A new intersection feature: Thermal detectors
- A new judge and, unrelated, an old debate
- A new lawn: No watering, less mowing
- A new look at planned downtown project
- A new old look for a downtown address
- A new plan to save the St. Francis and then some
- A new plant in Millersburg; issue is access
- A new playground for Henderson Park
- A new start in Independence
- A new traffic signal, needed or not
- A newspaper building will disappear
- A nice new house and what it costs
- A night in local politics
- A night-time rescue — where it happened
- A noisy time at the farmers’ market
- A non-virus story: Pickleball bid awarded
- A note of warning: This is LOUD
- A note to commenters: Use a valid address
- A number on the sidewalk: What it means
- A paper still worth the price
- A patchwork of pot laws likely
- A paving solution? (And what’s this bird?)
- A penthouse for the old St. Francis
- A perfect path: Bear Creek
- A permit to let rainwater drain
- A personal note: Thanks a lot!
- A piece of nature will be saved
- A piece of railroad history
- A plan for the corner of Santiam and Main
- A plan to close Central Elementary School
- A plan to keep Waverly Lake clear
- A postal snag, but it may be solved
- A potential danger? Not really
- A potential hazard, so watch out
- A praying mantis on that distant roof?
- A project on vacant corner: 16 townhouses
- A promising oak gets whacked
- A public hearing for minor repairs: Why?
- A puzzling tale about an odd little sign
- A question about crosswalk flashing lights
- A question about felons and guns
- A question of confidentiality, with updates
- A question of notice: Too little, too much?
- A question of speed and cost
- A question of speed: Legal versus prudent
- A question on bikes: Where to ride?
- A quiet spot, except for the creek …
- A rain tax in Albany’s future?
- A rainwater swale does double duty
- A rally in red, but no one missed school
- A reader’s report: Truax Island
- A rebellion? It’s about time …
- A red-letter date at Crocker and Gibson Hill
- A reminder of a case yet to be solved
- A reminder: This crossing closed 2 days
- A ride in the park while daylight lasts
- A riverfront conflict, and the geese have won
- A riverfront place to take your grandkids
- A riverfront update: Look at that log pile
- A road tax on new bikes
- A roadblock on Columbus N.E.
- A safe place for homeless youth
- A safer walk, but will they?
- A safer way to reach the new Oak Grove
- A safety issue along the riverfront path
- A safety project on Santiam: Limiting left turns
- A Saturday treat: Farmers’ market
- A seasonal interlude and frequent chore
- A sensible move on guns
- A shooting on the freeway
- A short explanation of work on Gibson Hill
- A shrub too far…
- A sidewalk anomaly explained
- A sign appears of downtown building’s past
- A sign of work: Those stacks of ties are gone
- A slow train to China? Not really, but …
- A small local tax for street repairs
- A small town in Germany
- A smarter way to create more housing
- A smooth path for a better life?
- A snag in replacing station’s tanks
- A somber topic: Where corona victims die
- A speed record? Hardly!
- A spiffy new road in order to add jobs
- A springtime visit to Freeway Lakes
- A stand of timber outside Albany: Gone
- A story? No, just a classic car
- A street project in West Albany: Ninth
- A street that acts like a park
- A successor in Linn County clerk’s office
- A sunny ride and, after dark, a lovely tree
- A sunny start to 2013
- A sure sign of summer at Waverly Lake
- A symbol of red tape and delay
- A tale of two ‘Crossings’
- A taste of the buzzing to come?
- A tax hike on the old and sick?
- A temporary bank branch downtown
- A time for Aubrey & Maturin
- A tip for Republicans: Reregister
- A touch of Eden: The Applegate River
- A touch of political news for Linn County
- A tour of Albany’s paved bike paths
- A traffic change: Dotted line turns solid
- A treat every four years
- A tree comes down in Albany
- A tree lesson that came too late
- A tribute to true wetlands
- A tribute: Why we have bike lanes
- A Tuesday ride on the Simpson Park Trail
- A turnaround in angled back-in parking
- A twist, but Hare’s case goes on
- A vehicle-charging station for downtown
- A very small mystery
- A walkway ‘star:’ Dorothy Anne Hobson
- A warmer West? Not lately
- A wave of development on Hickory Street
- A weather plus: Mild month saved us money
- A week later, checking on Water Avenue
- A welcome moment of bright skies
- A welcome sight on the beach
- A whopping campaign contribution
- A wider plot? Unlikely, but …
- A wild idea for Periwinkle Path
- A win for Albany, but a slim one
- A wooden boat? That means work
- A word on the year’s end at hh-today
- A year later, visiting Sunrise Park again
- A year later, what about new windows?
- A yellow crop — and controversial
- About ballots mailed too late to be counted
- About Iran, Israel and us
- About litter and plastic bags
- About new fencing on Santiam Canal
- About our alleys: More than a shortcut?
- About that ailing park tree: An update
- About that gas-power car ban in ’35
- About that plane in the garage …
- About that riverside box, let’s speculate
- About the next snow storm …
- About this playground: Questions and answers
- Abridging our gun rights: Initiative 17
- Accessible spaces, continued
- Accessory dwellings: A needless flap
- Accessory dwellings: The veto stands
- Accessory unit: A family’s quest stymied
- Accessory units: Mayor explains her veto
- Across Pine, it’ll be a church gym
- Activity at Edgewater Village!
- Adair Village strives for a downtown
- Adair: Building suburbs in the country
- Added service fee lacks council support
- ADU dispute: Is size really that crucial?
- ADUs get okayed despite deadlock
- ADUs: The dispute that keeps on going
- Adventures, sort of, at a grade crossing
- Affordable housing: A couple of projects
- After 135 years, no more paper every day
- After 35 years, it’s good-by old stage
- After a little rain and wind
- After a week, back on the Dave Clark Path
- After bond defeat, a prudent council action
- After Christmas, the good part …
- After closed session, here’s contract news
- After nearly 40 years, Novak’s is closed
- After the Big One, you need wheels
- After the election…
- After the storm: The scene on Bryant Way
- After this fire, an excess of caution?
- After training, ashes and a wisp of smoke
- Again and still, angled reverse parking
- Against total surveillance
- Ahead of him, a really long ride
- Ahout this observation post, city has answers
- Aid to S. Albany subdivision gets council nod
- Aiming at renewal in Hackleman District
- Air guns, police and what can happen
- Airport display: Now it’s accomplished
- Airport fence: Another look
- Airport fence: Anything for ‘security’
- Alb-Cor Bike Trail: Where to now?
- Alb-Cor path: Worth the effort
- Alb-Cor trail: Benton takes a step
- Alb-Cor Trail: Bogus objections
- Albany ‘business registry’? Council is split
- Albany accepts Linn offer for station, armory
- Albany ADUs can be mobile homes
- Albany and growth: Asking a question
- Albany and railroads: A new era?
- Albany announces choice for chief of police
- Albany approves E-scooter agreement
- Albany asks ODOT to allow sculpture
- Albany asks that trains be funded
- Albany aviation history: See it Sunday
- Albany backs off marijuana-store ban
- Albany ballot questions answered
- Albany bike project almost killed
- Albany bike routes and a bronze rating
- Albany bond update: Hasty Freez spared!
- Albany bond update: More on planning
- Albany bond update: Public engagement promised
- Albany bonds: Avert CARA complication
- Albany bonds: Things to know
- Albany bonds? Now’s the time
- Albany briefing: A bike path issue
- Albany briefing: Apartments being built
- Albany briefing: Exec session on real estate
- Albany briefing: Fire hall land purchase OK’d
- Albany briefing: Land for Station 11
- Albany briefing: Neutralizing CARA as bond concern
- Albany briefing: Police/fire bond vote coming
- Albany briefing: Progress on Water Avenue track
- Albany briefing: Voting on Measure 22-119
- Albany briefing: Water Avenue fix
- Albany briefing: Water Avenue update
- Albany briefing: Yes to what?
- Albany bus fare hike isn’t worth it
- Albany bus system to double in size
- Albany canals: A plan unfulfilled
- Albany car store has new owner
- Albany car store planned east of I-5
- Albany cart law looks like a flop
- Albany center’s goal: Appeal to all ages
- Albany church sells building but not bell
- Albany city transit rides to remain free
- Albany city utility bills going up
- Albany code stalls downtown project
- Albany considers 2nd Amendment ‘sanctuary’
- Albany considers a registry of businesses
- Albany considers new food truck law
- Albany considers radar speed signs
- Albany corona: What sewage tests showed
- Albany council candidates: No stampede
- Albany council discusses fee increases
- Albany council enacts new city fee — or tax
- Albany council heading toward added fee
- Albany council leaves viewers in the dark
- Albany council passes food truck law
- Albany council poised to OK a street fee
- Albany council starts 2021: Just one surprise
- Albany council steps into Portland unrest
- Albany council talks pot, again
- Albany council to consider a flag policy
- Albany council zeroes in on $9 service fee
- Albany council: Expect big turnover in 2021
- Albany council: Fewer seats for audience
- Albany council: More talk about pot
- Albany debt measure: Now what?
- Albany debt: Elections might have helped
- Albany dispensaries? Suspense grows
- Albany dispensary ban loses, but …
- Albany dives into marijuana debate
- Albany dog park: The spot
- Albany downtown: The riverfront next?
- Albany drops ‘family’ from city codes
- Albany drops grant-funded depot restroom
- Albany election: Off to court
- Albany election: Two councilors bowing out
- Albany electric tax hike delayed
- Albany email dispute: Story continues
- Albany eyes grant to add EV chargers
- Albany FBO plans to start Monday
- Albany fee decision set for next month
- Albany flap: Inclusion vs. harmony
- Albany funds industrial training gear
- Albany funeral homes have new owner
- Albany gas tax: Not this year
- Albany gas tax: Two vote no
- Albany gets a share of big opioid settlement
- Albany gets an outline of budget woes
- Albany gets plan for riverside apartments
- Albany gets ready for Cycle Oregon start
- Albany going to court over DEQ permit
- Albany has Bird E-scooters for second year
- Albany honors first responders
- Albany housing grant decisions put off
- Albany housing: In the pipeline or being built
- Albany housing: More apartments coming
- Albany Hydro restart is delayed
- Albany Hydro running again
- Albany Hydro, keeping history alive
- Albany Hydro: Hoping for better
- Albany hydro: Why it’s currently shut down
- Albany issue: “Debt” explained
- Albany issue: CARA’s surplus
- Albany issue: Signals to avoid delays?
- Albany issue: That ‘slip lane’ to Water
- Albany issue: The council and the public
- Albany issue: What kind of majority?
- Albany issues — a chance to unload, and learn
- Albany jet display: Another step
- Albany launches downtown parking study
- Albany lists city wages paid last year
- Albany lists former bank lot for sale
- Albany lists potential ‘climate friendly areas’
- Albany log yard: The story behind it
- Albany Lowe’s beginning to stir
- Albany Lowe’s countdown: The latest
- Albany Lowe’s: Any day now
- Albany may kill rainwater law, for now
- Albany may vote on 5-cent gas tax
- Albany mayor candidates down to 3
- Albany mayor declares city emergency
- Albany mayor ends ADU fight with council
- Albany mayor: Down with weeds!
- Albany moves to ban feeding wildlife
- Albany moves to open up street on canal
- Albany mural: Who painted it and when
- Albany news: City lowers ‘restriping’ fee
- Albany news: Sign action put off
- Albany news: Woodland Square gets boost
- Albany nixes weekly debris pickup
- Albany on chlorine shortage: Conserve water
- Albany on pot dispensaries: Wait and see
- Albany panel includes critics
- Albany panel rejects 7-townhouse appeal
- Albany panel rejects demolition request
- Albany panels favor ‘bike boulevard’ idea
- Albany parks, a playground for turkeys
- Albany picks site for homeless camping
- Albany plans to sell 3 lots for development
- Albany PO: No plans to move
- Albany police and fire levy: May vote
- Albany police report on use of force
- Albany police station for sale
- Albany postmaster: Move? Why?
- Albany pot ban: One side campaigns
- Albany pot code up on Monday
- Albany pot debate: Another round?
- Albany pot store ban? Maybe not!
- Albany pot stores: The series continues
- Albany pot tax: Are they serious?
- Albany pot: Action due this week
- Albany pot: Looking for ‘reasonable’
- Albany prepares to back farmworker housing
- Albany projects: Details galore!
- Albany projects: Got “visions”?
- Albany projects: Looking at details
- Albany protest, why school buses were there
- Albany public art: Installation gets close
- Albany rail project inches forward
- Albany rail project near completion
- Albany rail project: It’s done!
- Albany rain tax clears first hurdle
- Albany rain tax details emerge
- Albany rain tax: How about ‘tiers’?
- Albany rain tax: Ready to start
- Albany rejects Cordier petition
- Albany relations panel looks for a mission
- Albany resident announces for Senate
- Albany resident proposes a city cat law
- Albany scene: Art outside City Hall
- Albany scene: Working on the railroad…
- Albany school construction: Keeping track
- Albany searches for street funding ideas
- Albany seeks to improve riverside trail
- Albany sees first pot tax revenue
- Albany Senior Center when Covid is over
- Albany service fee stalls, delayed 2 weeks
- Albany services fee has emergency clause
- Albany services fee: Why it’s not a ‘tax’
- Albany set to add EV stations downtown
- Albany sign change, why?
- Albany sign due for an upgrade
- Albany signs: Less regulation, or none?
- Albany slows in single-home building
- Albany station clocks: The time is right
- Albany Station gets a new path
- Albany Station: Checking on the platform work
- Albany Station: Items worth noting
- Albany Station: south section of platform to reopen
- Albany stops predatory towers
- Albany street bond? Not now, council says
- Albany streets: Ideal for social distancing
- Albany streetscape: Now that it’s done …
- Albany students get a day off on Jan. 3
- Albany swimming holes? Not hard to find
- Albany takes another step toward new fee
- Albany takes up riverfront challenge
- Albany talks bond issue, utility fee for streets
- Albany to act on marijuana store ban
- Albany to borrow $16.9 million for riverfront
- Albany to buy former school bus barn
- Albany to buy four new transit buses
- Albany to consider emergency business aid
- Albany to draft pot dispensary ban
- Albany to get its “BottleDrop”
- Albany to Lowe’s: We still want you
- Albany to quit licensing cabs
- Albany to start enforcing camping ban
- Albany to upgrade trestle warnings
- Albany traffic crashes: The top spots
- Albany Transit, a good ride
- Albany Transit: Can less be more?
- Albany tries to cut red tape downtown
- Albany update on railroad deal
- Albany update: Water Avenue rehab under way
- Albany ups city electric tax, uh, fee
- Albany vs. growing nuisances
- Albany working on proposal for tent cities
- Albany working with firm on downtown hotel
- Albany yard debris: Still biweekly
- Albany’s a no-show in airport display
- Albany’s ADU flap: It’s not over yet
- Albany’s almost forgotten park
- Albany’s approach to the homeless: ‘Solutions’
- Albany’s CARA considers public projects
- Albany’s CARA poised to restart
- Albany’s CARA will check out Independence
- Albany’s CARA: In search of direction
- Albany’s credibility problem and how to repair it
- Albany’s demolition decision appealed
- Albany’s dog park about done
- Albany’s exclusion-zone law likely will stay
- Albany’s homeless campsite gets a hose
- Albany’s homeless site needs three things
- Albany’s indirect street fees
- Albany’s Main Street: Six more weeks
- Albany’s marijuana marathon goes on
- Albany’s new cop shop: Sleek
- Albany’s new deal with Lowe’s
- Albany’s new fire hall: Why it’s ’11’
- Albany’s new flag: The latest
- Albany’s new shopping cart code: Now what?
- Albany’s new start on bond proposal
- Albany’s next police chief will be…
- Albany’s no-go zone: How’s it working?
- Albany’s northeast corner: Taking a look
- Albany’s old bikeway has a new sign
- Albany’s oldest church building: What’s next?
- Albany’s plan for ADA-accessible streets
- Albany’s plunge in traffic tickets
- Albany’s prudent answer to rain
- Albany’s scenic golf course has long history
- Albany’s stainless art: What it’s called
- Albany’s turkeys: What can be done
- Albany’s war on vagrancy, crime
- Albany’s welcoming roundabout
- Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood, a likable place
- Albany, Huatulco and U.S-Mexico ties
- Albany, Linn County spar over land use
- Albany, where roundabouts flourish
- Albany-Corvallis Bikeway: Don’t call it that
- Albany-Corvallis bikeway: The wait continues
- Albany-Corvallis path is still a long way off
- Albany-Corvallis path: Pedaling on?
- Albany-Corvallis Trail: One segment’s done
- Albany-Corvallis trail: There’s hope!
- Albany: Elections might not hurt
- Albany: In fear of thieves
- Albany: No recreational sales at medical pot dispensaries
- Albany: This tax is not a tax
- Albany: Timber Street tract land in default
- Albany: Why rile up 5,000-plus voters?
- Alcohol stings: Stop state-assisted crime
- Alert: Tax limit under attack
- All aboard, but new platform’s not finished
- All about Albany’s Cathey Creek
- All about side effects
- All quiet on the riverfront
- All that old gunk, gone!
- All that talk about ‘boulevards’: Why?
- All that winter rain — could we sell it?
- All those awful hurdles to voting!
- All those containers: Why they are there
- All those horse chestnuts — looking for a use
- Almost done: Former bank filled and compacted
- Along a bikeway: Whimsy or what?
- Along Queen, street trees to come down
- Alternate route? No, but a nice drive
- Amid Queen construction, cafe hanging on
- Among Albany’s sights: A pile of old ties
- An afternoon on Freeway Lakes
- An Albany cat law? Councilor follows up
- An Albany corner that needs more light
- An Albany corner: Update on construction
- An Albany flag: The Final Five
- An Albany historic house, all boarded up
- An Albany issue: What kind of majority?
- An Albany opening worth waiting for
- An Albany park for dogs
- An Albany park’s name: Who was Eleanor?
- An Albany police-Linn sheriff merger?
- An Albany scene: They’re working on it
- An Albany scooter update: 6,000 miles
- An Albany soda tax? How Albany, CA, does it
- An autumn day on the Simpson Park trail
- An empty school, sad to see
- An idea for fuel producers
- An infill project on Water Avenue
- An inspiration, but then…
- An isolated case of arson, or what?
- An odd little law: Unsafe passing a bike
- An old rail car and the story it told
- An open plaza for now, as a 2011 plan said
- An operator for Albany Airport
- An Oregon story: A man and his mountain
- An outdoor gym for Albany’s Burkhart Park
- An ugly spot of automotive blight
- An update from Adair Village
- An update on Courtesy Corner
- An update on Woodland Square
- An update: Checking on pickleball courts
- An urgent need: More water
- Analyze this: Boost for business
- Ancient rock, needed today
- And again, this &*%#@ time change!
- And another ballot title challenge
- And another upgrade at Burkhart Park
- And back to the clocks at Albany Station
- And here’s what happens to the wood
- And in other news, we have these turkeys
- And now — Merry Christmas!
- And now for a different, uh, topic
- And now, a local sales tax on pot?
- And now, a site plan at 4th and Calapooia
- And now, as for those lids…
- And now, the loss of a life
- And now, the wait begins again
- And now: How not to moisten the flap
- And once again, those tower clocks…
- And suddenly, our air was filled with smoke
- And the message here is … what?
- And the miles add up …
- And the point of this is what?
- And then, there are the birds outside
- And they’re baaack — plastic bags!
- And this too: Cut off from library books
- And we get another year
- And, after the ice, back on the bike…
- Angled parking in downtown Albany?
- Angled parking: Long way off, if ever
- Annexation sought to build more housing
- Another airport study? Aaarrgh!
- Another Albany project for this renovator
- Another closed session of Albany council
- Another corona casualty: supply of bikes
- Another crossing and another train
- Another day on the Dave Clark Path
- Another dialysis center? Filing set aside
- Another edict from our ruler
- Another health care study?
- Another house closed as unsafe
- Another look at those big oaks
- Another look before the river takes them
- Another memory of this April flood
- Another N. Albany apartment project
- Another needless bill
- Another place for help with life
- Another place for spending old age
- Another place I had never been…
- Another public hearing on routine repairs
- Another rail crossing “adventure”
- Another rail crossing to avoid?
- Another reason time change is dumb
- Another round: Now it’s complete
- Another sign signals a big tree’s demise
- Another snag in Obamacare
- Another sunset? Give it a rest!
- Another time change — aaaargh!
- Another time change looms: Nuts!
- Another train: Industry on parade
- Another try for ‘The Banks’ apartments
- Another victim of technology
- Another virtual ordeal; Cumberland deal OK’d
- Another visit to this development site
- Another Walmart? No, afraid not
- Another year on the bike
- Another year, another gun bill
- Answer to debt limit unveiled
- Answering a question on Highway 20
- Answering the census sounds simple; it isn’t
- Any change at Bowers Rock?
- Any plans for Fir Grove school? Let’s see
- Anybody here speak English?
- Anyone here speak English?
- Anything coming? Hard to tell
- Apartment living: What you get
- Apartment project starting near Periwinkle Creek
- Apartments and houses are planned here
- Apartments on river get Albany staff’s OK
- Apartments proposed in North Albany
- Apophis: No answer to Social Security funding
- Apostrophes: Revolution’s on hold
- Apostrophes: Who needs them?
- Apparently lost, goose hangs at City Hall
- Appeal filed in ‘middle housing’ land division
- Appeals board faults city on ‘Calapooia Court’
- Appreciate the clear skies
- Archaeologists dig at Albany apartment site
- Are single-family houses over? Not yet
- Are these dirt barriers necessary?
- Are these school bills necessary?
- Are we there yet? Not quite, but close
- Area cleaned up by — guess who?
- Arms treaty may be trouble
- Armstrong book fraud? Nonsense!
- Armstrong, too late, but still…
- Armstrong: At least no weeping
- Around Albany on the Fifth of June
- Art dilemma dogs Albany council
- Art for Albany: City panel picks a concept
- Art project off Lyon gets enhancements
- Artist starts new mural, with an update
- As ’21 starts, thanks for the kind reaction
- As 2020 ends, a farewell to Albany’s mayor
- As demand for power grows…
- As expected, a new subdivision off Ellingson
- As for ‘livability,’ it doesn’t count
- As if water was plentiful and cheap
- As of Dec. 8, buying a gun looks impossible
- As pickleball gains, tennis seems to fade
- As promised, that signal is now on
- As requested, here’s a freight on the main line
- Ask about dead eagles
- Asking questions as the virus marches on
- At 4th and Calapooia, a few more weeks…
- At 50 years old, what the Bottle Bill needs
- At 610 Sherman St., a new chapter begins
- At Albany homeless site, the end is near
- At Albany Station, glimpse a little history
- At Albany Station, waiting for a train…
- At Albany’s Lehigh Park, changes in store
- At Bryant Park, before tonight’s rush for treats
- At Burkhart address, no change visible yet
- At Burkhart crossing, seeing a new railway
- At Burkhart Park, theme will be fitness
- At Christmastime, thanks for the comments
- At Edgewater Village, a plan change
- At food pod, that tent is gone for now
- At former gas station, there’s activity but …
- At Freddy’s, plastic bags on way out
- At Freeway Lakes, primrose battle resumes
- At LBCC, tennis goes and pickleball comes in
- At least it’s nice to look at
- At least there’s no ‘s’ in Cumberland
- At main library, paint flap is long forgotten
- At Monteith Riverpark, looking around
- At N. Albany RR track, a novel sight
- At Novak’s, it’s now a matter of days
- At Oak Grove, a big tank and bigger hole
- At OSU, names hinder success?
- At risk when we can’t see drivers’ eyes
- At Santiam and Bain, a lot of progress
- At Santiam and Bain, construction under way
- At Santiam and Main, signs of construction
- At skatepark, mural now covers a concrete wall
- At South Albany, rebuilding the field
- At South Shore School, making more space
- At South, a tricky naming task awaits
- At stake with DEQ: Saving Talking Waters
- At Sunrise Park, discovering a ‘wetland’
- At Takena Landing, checking out a theft of burls
- At Talking Water Gardens, a cleanup job
- At Talking Waters, an added feature
- At the beach, thoughts of Paris
- At the Capitol: More security, less freedom
- At the Capitol: No action on amendments
- At the library: How to check books down low?
- At the old OER depot, envisioning the future
- At the St. Francis, demolition inside
- At the truck eater, brighter warnings
- At this bumpy crossing, a fix is in sight
- At Tom’s, couple plan new garden center
- At Waverly Lake, algae problem returns
- At West High, 4 gender-neutral restrooms
- Attacking the algae on Waverly Lake
- Attention railfans: See this show
- August report: Too many apples
- August sewer spill could get expensive
- Autumn colors, close by
- Autumn visit: Return to E.E. Wilson
- Back in the news: NA voltage regulators
- Back on council agenda: portable toilets
- Back on the open road …
- Back to dirt streets and mud?
- Back to the path: The beginning …
- Back to the Sixties: Debating fluoridation
- Back-in parking on the wrong side
- Back-in parking: A matter of inches
- Back-in parking: Council notes complaints
- Back-in parking: Start practicing
- Back-in parking: Your opinion?
- Background check bill? It’s coming
- Backing in: Not yet 100 percent
- Bad law, bigger fines
- Bad news on the street beat
- Bad streets: How come no complaints?
- Baffled at Monteith Riverpark on Sunday
- Bag enforcement? Don’t call the cops
- Bailey Branch objections answered
- Ballot fraud just about impossible
- Ballot hearing raises charter question
- Ballot issues: This equality we have
- Ballot secrecy envelopes scrapped
- Ballot test due on power takeover
- Ballot title muddies rain tax issue
- Ballots: A big new drop box for N. Albany
- Bank’s temporary branch needed no more
- Barb’s Book
- Barbed-wire request meets resistance
- Bare steeple: What’s up with Cumberland
- Barred owls: Victims of management
- Basic comfort should not cost extra
- Basic street work gets CARA’s nod
- Be a friend to wild birds
- Be glad for our storage dams
- Beach tobacco ban: Show us the law
- Beale, money and the EPA
- Beer for boys and girls (just kidding)
- Bees on oak leaves: A mystery solved
- Before and after on the Cox Creek Path
- Before and after on the Santiam Canal
- Before and after on the Simpson Park Trail
- Before and after: One big old tree’s demise
- Before and after: Site of house fire is cleaned up
- Before I forget: Checking on the sea
- Before it reopens: Monteith Riverpark
- Behind the lights: Pot vote upcoming
- Behold ‘new’ streets in this old neighborhood
- Behold an artifact of Albany industry
- Behold new ‘Century’ downtown
- Behold our mighty … Cox Creek
- Behold the new Albany flag!
- Behold the new attraction in Waverly Lake
- Behold the new speaker’s table
- Being a soft touch could cost you
- Being grateful for good cycling roads
- Belmont Avenue, almost done
- Belmont Street update: A big dig
- Benton ‘sanctuary’ changes nothing
- Benton County tries its Arabic
- Benton County’s seismic dilemma
- Benton creek gets a new conduit
- Benton GMO ban: Weird notions
- Benton goes on with bikeway study
- Benton has plan for N. Albany Park
- Benton initiative: Better way of voting
- Benton jail plan faces doubters
- Benton moves: Recalling courthouse visits
- Benton roads: What’s coming up
- Benton vote: Keep wasting time
- Benton will patrol on propane
- Benton’s jail: A mess of problems
- Benton’s N.A. Park: What about upgrade?
- Benton: UP won’t allow bikeway underpass
- Best bike towns? Right here!
- Better passenger rail: A nice dream
- Better rail when? Nobody knows
- Beware of property tax “reform”
- Beware of these two parking lot hazards
- Bicycling: A cop’s ride
- Bids opened for Riverside Drive
- Big Brother could check your vote
- Big crowd jams bike trail hearing
- Big Dig enters its final phase
- Big Dig starts with open house
- Big gas lines: An update
- Big high school additions: Keeping track
- Big lots in ‘fringe:’ City staff says no
- Big money aims at Albany senator
- Big money, no results
- Big railroad job near Jefferson bridge
- Big rock: Learning about ‘glacial erratics’
- Big tree at issue: Taking a closer look
- Big tree down on Cox Creek Path
- Bike bills in the legislature: Taking a look
- Bike bills then and now
- Bike boulevard: Ride all eight blocks
- Bike boulevards: Questioning the need
- Bike bridge — an idea too far out?
- Bike fee? It’s not practical
- Bike graduation at Oak Grove
- Bike lane dumpster: How much longer?
- Bike lanes must be used, except for …
- Bike lanes: Lots of broken glass
- Bike meets Coast Starlight at the station
- Bike path lines: An idea worth copying
- Bike paths in another 40 years?
- Bike rack’s swaying days are over
- Bike ride: On the street for Columbus
- Bike route options: How about these?
- Bike route still blocked? Nope
- Bike stops for snake; what kind is it?
- Bike trails worth copying
- Bike/Ped Plan: It’s just words
- Bikepath system grows, a little
- Bikes in traffic: A reader’s challenge accepted
- Bikes would not be stuck here
- Bikeway along Hwy. 20: The latest
- Bikeway bridge lifted into place
- Bikeway extension on Queen now is complete
- Bikeway planning: Public has big say
- Bikeway project stalls over undercrossing
- Bikeway update: The word is soon
- Bikeway’s Albany zig-zag stays in place
- Biking across the Ellsworth Street Bridge
- Biking around our nice place to live
- Biking in this heat? Not bleeding likely…
- Biking: No news is good news
- Bikman Building’s penthouse has new roof
- Bill allows closed meetings to discuss safety
- Bill benefits Highway 34
- Bill could help cyclists at lights
- Bill could strangle marijuana dispensaries
- Bill dies; no favor to cougars
- Bill seeks more median barriers
- Bill seeks permits for canoeing
- Bill takes aim at left-lane hogs
- Bill targets poker rooms — why?
- Bill would allow killing of ‘urban deer’
- Bill would give rebates to buy E-bikes
- Bill would make property tax jump
- Bill would preclude future ‘birther’ flaps
- Billing fiasco: Albany thanks you for patience
- Bills and more bills in Salem
- Bills: Deer control and roadkills
- Bird scooters: Learn how and where to park
- Birds in the cold: ‘More seed, please’
- Blind spots in traffic
- Blocking our view: Talk about bushes
- Blog slowdown? Let me explain
- Blow that horn, man!
- Blue on green: Behold a field of camas blooms
- Blues on a Saturday afternoon
- Board goes for upgrades at Central School
- Boardwalk is open, but why is it there?
- Boardwalk isn’t getting rebuilt; here’s why
- Boating news, and Millersburg fire deal
- Bomb case: We don’t know enough
- Bond issue: The facts are enough
- Book report: Following Joe Pickett
- Book report: Try Ian Rankin’s crime novels
- Book titles and big names
- Booze buyers get online help
- Bottle Bill: A deadline on old cans
- Bottle Bill: Higher deposits, but why?
- Bottle Bill: More empties to return
- Bottle Drop follow: Look up and smile
- BottleDrop’s green bags: The money angle
- Bowers Rock follow-up: Access issue remains
- Bowers Rock State Park: How big it is
- Bowers Rock State Park: Promising signs
- Bowers Rock: Broken promises
- Bowers Rock: County is trying
- Bowers Rock: Taking a look inside
- Bowers Rock: The access deed
- Bowers Rock: Time for a look and an update
- Bowers Rock: What’s behind HB 2034
- Bowman dock cleared of debris, for now
- Bowman ramp made useful again
- Box on the roof: City sets public hearing
- Boxelder bug season is nearing its end
- BPA line replacement: An update
- BPA pole replacement nears finish
- Breezy day: Nice climate change
- Brick pavers added to Water Avenue
- Bridge completed 100 years ago: No big deal
- Bridge congestion: Study will seek solution
- Bridge repair: How much and who pays
- Bridge to Bryant: Still safe but …
- Bright lights blazing on Third
- Bright night on the Dave Clark Trail
- Bright spot: Looking forward to this public art
- Broken railing: Boardwalk needs repair
- Browsers’ Reborn: Revival of a bookstore
- Browsing the library shelves after Covid curbs
- Bryant Park: It’s been a full century
- Bud Pierce, a showman he’s not
- Budget mess: Blame us too
- Budget message: You can check it out
- Budget trouble: Albany gets harsh projections
- Builder works on N. Albany store
- Builders build while task force labors on
- Building down: Where’s the time capsule?
- Building for the old-folks boom
- Building issue won’t go away
- Bundled and cut off
- Burger King files to rebuild
- Burggraf Building’s sale is pending
- Buried rail: Reminder of Oregon Electric
- Burkhart Square: Going beyond the plaque
- Bus barn for sale; city submits bid
- Bus shelter: Sidewalk too thin?
- Bus stops? What’s in store
- Buses would video failures to stop
- Business notes: Where’s that store?
- Button’s no help on this little ride
- By the roadside, a pile of yard debris
- By the roadside, an empty bottle …
- Bypass Albany Station? Better not!
- CA gas price: We may be next
- Cable barrier: We have to wait
- Cables to prevent I-5 crashes
- Cakes case: What happened to tolerance?
- Cal vote might help on twilight rides
- Calapooia Court not yet in the clear
- California drought and Oregon water
- Call it a pseudo-apple, if you want
- Cameras could snap speeders too
- Cameras record Albany traffic bottleneck
- Cameras’ role may expand
- Camp cleanup planned in Simpson Park
- Camp sites for homeless: Some numbers
- Campaign brewing in Ward I
- Campaign waste: Voting’s partly over
- Campaigns can stop now
- Campaigns: What candor would sound like
- Can Oregon GOP ever come back?
- Can our political unions last?
- Can the Wells Fargo project be saved?
- Can this truck trap be fixed?
- Can we end school shootings?
- Can we get kids to ride bikes?
- Can we protect our power grid?
- Can we rescue Waverly Lake?
- Can we stow the insults please
- Can we use rebuilt path? Not just yet
- Can you beat this October?
- Can’t sleep? Try property tax reports
- Can’t they see the conflict?
- Canal crash rescue: Here’s what happened
- Canal dispute: Compromise needed
- Canal fight getting out of hand
- Canal issues test Albany, Lebanon
- Canal water looked like milky coffee
- Canal work in progress
- Canal work update
- Canna Kitchen — nothing to ban
- Canoe launch: Still no progress
- Cap and trade and the price of gas
- Capitol impasse saves quite a bit of cash
- CARA and ABC: Request for siding aid
- CARA asked to help in building restoration
- CARA backs into angled parking
- CARA backs new downtown B&B
- CARA backs pastry chef’s plan
- CARA board backs shelter move
- CARA board stalls on waterfront project
- CARA budget focuses on riverfront upgrade
- CARA buys former Wells Fargo branch
- CARA faces requests for more projects
- CARA gets a look at riverfront designs
- CARA gets request for $336,000
- CARA has pick of 3 offers to buy ex-bank
- CARA loan raises shelter’s costs
- CARA milestone: Money for projects OK’d
- CARA OKs loan for homeless shelter
- CARA on Wells Fargo project: Keep going
- CARA opts to demolish old Wells Fargo branch
- CARA rescues Novak’s move
- CARA says yes to Lepman project
- CARA sees the light and likes it
- CARA still coy about Fargo offers, but …
- CARA to help on police, fire buildings
- CARA to weigh $1 million request
- CARA told of River View project
- CARA update: $34.5M spent, $21.5M to go
- CARA update: Hoping for completion
- CARA wants to buy a downtown property
- CARA wants to press on
- CARA yanks old-house request
- CARA’s interested if Eagles sell
- CARA’s riverfront project survives on 5-2 vote
- CARA: Let’s finish what we started
- CARA: Millions for attractive streets?
- CARA: Out with fancy names
- CARA: Progress, and a tough call
- Carbon tax: What it’ll cost
- Carnegie Library looks safe in budget crunch
- Carnegie Library still on the chopping block
- Carnegie upgrade: Windows that work
- Carousel funding: The final round
- Carousel opening: The sidelights
- Carousel parking: Issue comes up
- Carousel: An attraction already
- Carousel: Expect a parking ‘mess’
- Cars passing bikes: Just a reminder
- Catching up with an E-bike and its rider
- Caught in the act: Surreptitious dumping
- Caught in the system
- Cell antennas planned at high schools
- Cell phones: The urge to punish
- Cell reception better now?
- Cell tower: How tall is too tall?
- Cemetery lightning strike: What it cost
- Central School upgrade: The estimate soars
- Century-old structure declared ‘derelict’
- CHANCE follow-up: More on its plans
- CHANCE recovers a slice of Albany history
- Change coming on grocery front
- Change in store at Albany airport
- Change of pace today: Hunting for a quote
- Change the rules on historic review
- Changes at the Bottle Drop: Fees and more
- Changes coming at 4 Albany intersections
- Changes coming on Santiam and Pacific
- Changes in bus system proposed
- Changing laws means more fences
- Chaos elsewhere, city park planning here
- Charge your EV while at the courthouse
- Charter school: Worth the risk
- Chauffeurs wait for school to end
- Cheap gas: Enjoy it while you can
- Cheap light bulbs: I miss them
- Check out that crack in the bridge
- Check out what Putin said
- Checking for problems along the track
- Checking in on ‘passenger rail’
- Checking in on back-in parking
- Checking in on Millersburg Love’s
- Checking on Albany hydro: Sales slump
- Checking on project at North Albany Park
- Checking on St. Francis as state panel visits
- Checking out the camas on Albany’s federal site
- Checking riverside parks for high water
- Checking up on Madison safety project
- Chick-fil-A proposed near freeway
- China and the price of recycling
- CHL bills softened, but still …
- Chlorine supply: Water emergency averted
- Christmas Eve on the Periwinkle Bikepath
- Christmas Eve, and another flat
- Church drops plans on Gibson Hill Road
- Church proposed on Gibson Hill
- Church’s move was imminent; now it’s not
- Cities face new mandate on river trash
- Cities now can fight urban deer
- Cities to pursue composting
- Cities want tax limits eased
- Citizen asks city to reopen useful shortcut
- Citizen gets action: A dark corner is lit
- City adds to riverfront consulting contract
- City agrees to try to save this tree
- City approves plan for riverfront lot
- City assurance falls one vote short
- City budget gives Maple Lawn a year
- City buys a building, but not this one
- City cites violations at downtown building
- City comes to the rescue, quickly
- City cool to Golf Club’s sale offer
- City debt debate nears a harmonious end
- City drops Jackson as police site
- City files for review of riverfront renovation
- City finance: When reports confuse
- City gets good news in police-fire bids
- City gets one offer for ex-Cumberland lot
- City gets ready to foreclose on old house
- City gets site plan for a new dispensary
- City goes after abandoned and ‘yard cars’
- City Hall art: It beats meetings
- City Hall: Keeping it clean
- City manager: Please reduce my raise
- City may authorize Vine Street blockages
- City may drop restroom project at depot
- City may seek grants for station restroom
- City news: Take a look at NA Road project
- City officials concerned about Signs of Victory
- City OK’s crossing construction contract
- City OKs increase in plans for ‘The Banks’
- City on canal recreation: No way!
- City panel wants to pursue ‘bike boulevards’
- City parks and portables — just one question
- City poised to lower restriping fee
- City posts proposed plan for site on Santiam
- City pot tax: So what do voters know?
- City proposes a use for former RR land
- City pump at work on Broadway
- City receives more marijuana tax
- City schedules public hearing on ‘The Banks’
- City seeks bids to remove river gravel
- City set to demolish an Albany house
- City streetscape job: The latest on cost
- City takes title of CARA project
- City to dispose of N. Albany pond
- City to Lowe’s: Permit is ready
- City tries to shut down camp under path
- City vacates street to help Helping Hands
- City wage hikes: A percentage of what?
- City wants input on NA intersection
- City wants more proposals on vacant bank
- City wants to raze old Wells Fargo branch
- City wants to vacate two riverside streets
- City will ask for proposals — again
- City wording would ban pot, period
- City’s appeal: Stay off Queen to let crews finish
- City’s camping ban: The penalty?
- City’s homeless camp: Put it where?
- City’s new park ranger: She’s on her way
- City’s public EV charger about to open
- City’s vacant lot still looking for a use
- City-owned site looking for a use
- City: Canal ‘paths’ still possible
- City: Cutting trees to save the sidewalks
- City: DEQ permit would cost millions
- City: What the “against” voters want
- Clean-fuels for jobs? It’s doubtful
- Cleaned up for now; surveillance next?
- Cleanup on the Periwinkle path: Thanks!
- Clearing algae: Waverly Lake looks good
- Clearing the Bowman Park ramp of debris
- Climate change and loss of freedom
- Climate change doubts? Burn ’em!
- Climate change or something else?
- Climate change saves money
- Climate change: We’ve had it
- Climate change: Where is it?
- Climate change? Demand better weather!
- Climate fanatics want us to suffer and freeze
- Climate plan: What else is new?
- Climate: Same old and barnacles
- Climate? Our bills reflect no crisis
- Clock tower repairs: A nice little surprise
- Close call at a blind corner
- Close to nature: A city of wooded trails
- Close to town, a nice place for boats
- Close to town, there’s the open road
- Closed meetings and the “media”
- Closed sessions: This change would help
- Closing a lane gets push-back
- Closing the loop on Albany’s Panera
- Closures narrow choice of Albany pharmacies
- Coal dust fears go up in smoke
- Coal trains and Albany
- Coal trains and Albany, continued
- Coast update: Sea level?
- Coffee and fillings: How about a sign?
- Coffin Butte expansion: Our trash problem
- Coffin Butte lessens price jump
- Coffin Butte rejection: Appeal is pending
- Coffin Butte: The price and other concerns
- Cold facts about warming
- Cold storage and cold cash
- Columbia River Crossing: Too much
- Combining: Getting the grass seed in
- Come summer, more shade
- Come talk about the Benton jail
- Coming back to Sunrise Park: Here’s why
- Coming on Queen Avenue, more storage
- Coming online: More of Potts’ pix
- Coming up this week
- Coming up: Ban on predatory tows
- Coming up: More houses in Adair
- Coming: A facelift for old ‘Pythias’
- Commission denies NA zone change
- Common sense loses twice
- Company plans shared e-scooters in Albany
- Company would clean Waverly Lake
- Competition over nest resolved, for now
- Concerns on Clark Path: The city listens
- Confirmed: Who will practice here
- Confusion about ‘open’ or ‘closed
- Congestion on I-5: What can be done?
- Congestion solutions? Not anytime soon
- Congratulations on a fitting new name
- Congress takes time off — good!
- Constant danger: Crossing the line
- Contract post office closes; reopening uncertain
- Controlling the contagion: Is it working?
- Cool place on a warm day
- Cool Willamette: Costs may rise
- Cor-Alb bike trail: Here’s why
- Cor-Alb trail funds OK’d: And now?
- Cor-Alb Trail gets Albany’s support, again
- Corner building regains historic look
- Corona days in Albany: Working outdoors
- Corona Days: A little sign of hope?
- Corona Days: Meanwhile at Talking Waters
- Corona or no corona: more apartments
- Corona reports lack important details
- Corona service: Mother’s Day in parking lot
- Corona update: Playgrounds and such
- Corona: Day Two of Albany staying home
- Correcting a sign…
- Corvallis bag ban: Bossing shoppers around
- Corvallis-Albany trail may get $2 million
- Cost of rules may kill Albany hydro
- Costly pathway turns into trashy walk
- Could anything at all prevent graffiti?
- Could former fuel depot find a new use?
- Could Madison become a ‘bike boulevard’?
- Council ‘guest’ process draws ire
- Council acts to support Albany industry
- Council allows demolition after 90 days
- Council allows portable toilet to remain
- Council annexes land off Lochner Road
- Council approves ‘Calapooia Court,’ 5-1
- Council approves settlement of ‘Cannibal’ suit
- Council asked to back single-payer health plan
- Council asks about odor from dump
- Council backs $159M school bond
- Council backs health care commission bill, 4-3
- Council clears way for houses’ demolition
- Council cool to idea for saving old oaks
- Council curtails mayor’s appointment power
- Council deadlocks on ADUs and boards
- Council denies appeal on window replacement
- Council election: There’s competition
- Council endorses Benton jail, justice bonds
- Council eyes potential pot limits
- Council faces decision on old church
- Council fends off proposed riverbank gift
- Council gets a gift: Ideas for ‘Strong Towns’
- Council gets options for new Albany fee
- Council gets ordinance to allow camp sites
- Council gets request for parking ban
- Council gives church a porta-pot permit
- Council grab bag: Feral cats, natural gas etc.
- Council has doubts about gas tax
- Council hears about a sidewalk trip hazard
- Council hears about tent at food cart pod
- Council hears long-distance plea on trucks
- Council hears of parking dilemma on 9th
- Council hears of trouble at homeless site
- Council leaves school zone in place
- Council likes industrial training request
- Council makes NA group happy
- Council moves ahead with Obie plans
- Council mystery: Explanations came Thursday
- Council names new member, snubs ex-mayor
- Council news: Here’s what may affect you
- Council nixes ban on feeding wildlife
- Council nixes ex-mayor for planning commission
- Council nixes Santiam Road ‘bottle drop’
- Council offers city manager’s job
- Council OK with M’burg fire deal
- Council OKs red light and speed cameras
- Council on traffic cameras: Keep going
- Council open to Cumberland request
- Council puts Hazelwood Park up for sale
- Council questions I-5 plan details
- Council reacts to irrational handbill
- Council rejects gate on public right of way
- Council rejects schools’ request on driveway
- Council resolves to fight ‘violation’
- Council resumes talk of pot rules
- Council revisits issue of portable toilets
- Council seeks grant for station restroom
- Council seems open to local gas tax
- Council sells neighbors Hazelwood Park
- Council sides with Waverly neighbors
- Council sticks with ‘harmony’
- Council stymied in allocating housing cash
- Council tables coal train protest
- Council talk covers portables, mushroom vote
- Council talks street repairs and cash
- Council to get yard debris request
- Council to hear proposal for depot restroom
- Council to lend food company $744,000
- Council to vote on commission shakeup
- Council to voters: Drop dead
- Council TV: ‘For the viewers at home…’
- Council TV: Watching from a better chair
- Council votes down draft of portable-loo law
- Council votes for ‘pride’ banner in window
- Council votes for roundabout — later
- Council votes for three housing grants
- Council votes to sell former Cumberland site
- Council votes to sell old ‘Labor Temple’
- Council votes to sell unusual lot for $4,000
- Council wants more pot restrictions
- Council wants nuisance property cleaned up
- Council’s red-letter day: No masks required
- Council: Help our neighbors who fled fires
- Council: Keep police & fire tax rate the same
- Council: No roundabout on Gibson
- Councilor vows to block pot sales ban
- Councilwoman wants facility to help homeless
- Court date coming up in ‘nuisance’ case
- Court decree affects two local locomotives
- Courtesy Corner update: It’s open
- Covid ‘freeze’ too hard on restaurants
- Covid may stop Albany Veterans Day parade
- Covid shots: A question of waiting and hoping
- Covid test kits: Postal Service comes through
- Cox Creek Path fence takes another hit
- Cox Creek Path has new look: It’s clean
- Cox Creek restoration: An update
- Cracking down on bus stop squatters
- Cracks and scour: This bridge will get fixed
- Crash: A chance to test NA detour
- CRC tolling: The answers
- Creating the ‘Opera House Apartments’
- Creek section cleared of junked carts
- Crocker nearly done; what next?
- Crocker project: A status check
- Crocker sidewalks all the way? Not yet
- Crocker: ‘As quickly as possible’
- Cross that bridge and remember a pioneer
- Crossed wires? Worrying about phone lines…
- Crossing concept draws objections
- Crossing Cox Creek: UP makes a move
- Crossing on Queen to be fixed next week
- Crossing on Queen: Another year of bumps
- Crossing the line? That’s a fine
- Crossing update on Riverside
- Crossings: Right vs. right thing to do
- Crosswalk alert, especially June 9
- Crowd hears about law on middle housing
- Crude oil: Pipelines instead of trains?
- Crunched canopy: Not a simple case
- Cuba Libre: Still a worthy goal
- Cumberland Center: So what happens next?
- Cumberland Church gets its steeple back
- Cumberland church: Bigger costs on horizon
- Cumberland group has a date for big move
- Cumberland may figure in Albany election
- Cumberland move gets Landmarks’ OK
- Cumberland move now set for Sunday
- Cumberland move: It won’t be Tuesday
- Cumberland move: Steeple will go first
- Cumberland progress: Restoring windows
- Cumberland update: Hovering over concrete
- Cumberland update: On its foundation
- Cumberland update: Repairing the steeple
- Cumberland update: Steeple’s still up there
- Cumberland: A center in search of events?
- Cumberland: A community center already
- Cure homelessness, but how?
- Curious about old store site: Now, a fence
- Curious about squirrels? Look them up
- Cut state expenses? Nice try!
- Cuts: What most media missed
- Cycling in Albany: Two tricky intersections
- Cycling in the city: Levels of stress
- Cycling in the country — and it’s free
- Cycling the Water Gardens on a cold day
- Cyclist’s death still under review
- Cyclist’s death: No criminal case
- Cyclists acting badly: A councilor complains
- Cyclists at the ‘gore:’ What to do now?
- Cyclists’ lament: Queen and Geary
- Cylvia Hayes and Oregon prosperity
- D’s, R’s and Nons: The local numbers
- DA has reports on cyclist’s death
- Dark corner: City working to get it lit
- Dark topic on a sunny day: On homelessness
- Date set for demolition hearing
- Dave Clark Path: And after dark?
- Day marked by, what else, riding the bike
- Daylight time again, but why?
- Dead frogs on the street …
- Dead grass all over, but not in this spot
- Deal proposed to save Cumberland Church
- Dear Sun: As for today …
- Death off the Dave Clark Path
- Death off the Dave Clark Path II
- Death penalty: Repeal or affirm it
- Death penalty: What if voters keep it?
- Death to parking violators?
- Deaths spur action on I-5 barrier
- Debate brings out gun bill’s flaws
- Debates questioned
- Decades of crashes without a permanent fix
- Decision 6 years ago still yields citations
- Decision about Central School is coming up
- Decision time for CARA
- Decision time: Fire and police buildings
- Declining fitness? Duh!
- DeFazio right on Russian deal
- Defense lawyer picked to be city judge
- Delay demolition 90 days, city staff asks
- Democrats to enlarge voter rolls
- Demolition cost more than expected
- Demolition meeting ends on a sour note
- Demolition stayed pending appeal
- Demolition: A question about Albany’s code
- Demolition: Consider the city’s process
- Dennis Richardson’s quest for governor
- Denser housing: Owner renews rezoning bid
- Densification: 35 dwellings in place of one
- Denver Street cleanup: A big job
- Deporting students? Not likely
- Deposits and redemption: Chapter 2
- Deprived of a chance to vote? Not so fast
- Deputies investigate straw fire on Riverside
- DEQ fines city over Talking Water leaks
- DEQ has new plan to reduce mercury in river
- DEQ revises stormwater rules Albany fought
- Derelict houses: Demolition requested
- Design firm picked for police, fire buildings
- Despite Covid: Why hoops are coming back
- Despite ominous news, a quiet day on I-5
- Details emerge in Albany riverfront planning
- Detours, new roundabout in NA’s future
- Developer pulls out of St. Francis project
- Dialysis patients need a parking lot ramp
- Did this make a sound?
- Digging deep: Rebuilding crossing at park
- Directions: The fix that wasn’t
- Disappointment for a Eugene duck
- Discovering Albany: Look at that dam
- Discovering Albany: the Cox Creek Path
- Discovering an Albany gem: Draper Park
- Disgusting but not illegal, yet!
- Dispensaries: Lots of comment, no effect
- Distance learning: Here’s part of Albany’s cost
- District 8 Senate race: Uneven money
- Ditch ’40-40-20;’ it’s misguided
- Diverse ideas for new ‘natural area’
- Diversity flap ends in harmony
- DMV still hassles citizens
- DMV: Our air is too bad for work
- Dodging craters on our streets
- Does council want a health sales tax?
- Does this look like a swamp?
- Dog case: Not another Blue
- Dog park: All it needs is dogs
- Doing better with coal
- Dome car followup: Chat with the owner
- Don’t backtrack on dispensary law
- Don’t call them ‘single-use’ bags
- Don’t cut trees that help us stay cool
- Don’t forget Mondays
- Don’t get lost when visiting here
- Don’t let ‘caution’ keep you off that path
- Don’t make property tax worse
- Don’t mind the signs, but …
- Don’t shortcut the Constitution
- Don’t take this the wrong way…
- Don’t try to ban dispensaries
- Don’t try to justify torture
- Donated face masks? Samaritan answers
- Doomed or not: Inside Cumberland Church
- Doomed: Taking a last look at downtown tree
- Doping and us
- Doubling up on valley trains — but when?
- Doubts that gun grab will work
- Down by the Calapooia’s side
- Down to the river, an unexplained fence
- Down with glass breakers …
- Downtown ‘parklets’ in 2nd year
- Downtown beat: Another restoration’s complete
- Downtown building due for upgrade
- Downtown building’s roof caves in
- Downtown car store: My memories
- Downtown commerce and the future
- Downtown commotion: Man in a tree
- Downtown Dig is taking longer
- Downtown dig: Getting through it
- Downtown discovery: Gems of the past
- Downtown EV charger looks ready to use
- Downtown EV charger: A status update
- Downtown housing proves hard to build
- Downtown intrigue: A man of mystery
- Downtown landmark: Back to its beginning
- Downtown library hours: Saturdays!
- Downtown library open Saturdays
- Downtown library: When the doors are closed
- Downtown outhouse status: It’s undecided
- Downtown parking change put off
- Downtown parking: An expert’s points
- Downtown parking: Study says it works
- Downtown pizza business still closed, in limbo
- Downtown revival: Another project
- Downtown revival: Another step
- Downtown signs: Which way to turn
- Downtown site: From pizza to counseling
- Downtown site: From tavern to church?
- Downtown speed: Who cares?
- Downtown street loan: $8.4 million
- Downtown streets: So far it’s talk
- Downtown streets: The party had just begun
- Downtown, a beacon of tradition
- Draft title’s right: Creating criminals
- Drainage news: Behold a working bioswale!
- Draining a ‘lake’ behind Albany school
- Dressing up downtown streets
- Drive electrics — or else?
- Drive-through thoughts of drilling ban
- Driver cards: More fees for DMV
- Driving blind: Spray from big rigs
- Driving: Never look down
- Drugs within 1,000 feet …
- Duck update: Awaiting restoration
- Duck’s return looks possible now
- Due on 34: Protection from bad driving
- Dump expansion rests on subjective standards
- During Flag Day week, a flap was avoided
- Dwelling on the riverfront: It’s a big project
- E-bike store joins downtown scene
- E-station downtown: Almost ready for use
- E.E. Wilson in February
- E.E. Wilson: Go for the berries
- Eagles lodge for sale, but CARA shrugs
- Eagles offer to sell city their lodge
- East Albany area: Lots of new housing
- East Albany Plan: It’s complicated
- East of Lyon: A remarkable comeback
- East-west ‘avenues’ — but why?
- Eclipse gridlock? Well, not here
- Edgewater gets backing to carry on
- Edgewater update: Moving day
- Edgewater Village nearing the finish line
- Edgewater Village, still waiting
- Edgewater Village: A push to finish
- Edgewater Village: CARA hesitates
- Edgewater Village: City marks its completion
- Edgewater Village: Deadline is met
- Edgewater Village: Looking good
- Edgewater wants to buy vacant city lot
- Edgewater: City adds a payment
- Edgewater: City waits for final plat
- Edgewater: Completed in 2020, as planned
- Edgewater: No apartments after all
- Edgewater: Things are happening
- Edgewater: Transformation takes shape
- Edgwater Village: The next chapter
- Edgwater: Ahead of requirements
- Education chief for one year
- Eighteen years (or so) of tagging…
- Election may affect Albany ‘fee’ next year
- Election night: Get over it
- Election worries: Then there’s M97!
- Electoral College: Long may it last
- Ellsworth Bridge work delayed till April 1
- Elm loses two elms; felling and replanting
- Elm Street again: Watching crash repairs
- Empty roads, great for cycling
- Encounter with geese, sort of
- End time change? It’s hopeless
- Energy mandates: You pay more
- Energy plan: What about price?
- Enjoy the AC while you still can
- Enjoy the game but don’t touch anything
- Enjoying summer’s first day
- Enjoying the open road on 2 wheels
- Entertained by the bird life outside
- Espolon update: Repair plans filed
- Eugene Airport — glad it’s there
- EV charging stations downtown?
- Even ‘closed,’ venue proves too inviting
- Even police inspections of homes?
- Ever upward: Albany sewer rates
- Every street should have one
- Ex-GI Joe space gets makeover
- Ex-postal annex has found new use
- Exactly what’s a ‘school day’ anyway?
- Exciting (ahem) demolition update
- Executive order: What Gov. Brown wants
- Expanded Albany bus routes start Monday
- Expect a rebuild at Wendy’s too
- Expect action on Albany bikeway
- Expect longer wait as deposit doubles
- Expect three new faces on GAPS board
- Expenses mount in Benton’s big plans
- Explaining the fencing in front of West
- Explaining what we see outside the courthouse
- Exploring near new Burkhart Creek bridge
- Extra-house issue still roils Albany council
- Face to face with an invader
- Facts would kill emissions scheme
- Facts? The majority doesn’t care
- Fairmount speed zone: Here’s why
- Fake-bomb case: A test of justice
- Fall means blocked bike lanes
- False alarm: No, river’s not contaminated
- Farm Home downs 27 big roadside trees
- Farmers’ Market starts season
- Farmers’ market: Awaiting next spring
- Farmers’ market: Think of the vendors
- Fast and legal (but not here)
- Fatal curve well marked by signs
- Fed up: Enough with the childish sniping
- Fence marks start of Riverpark reconstruction
- Fence signals demolition of former bank
- Ferry news: Closed for repairs
- Ferry saves farmers long detours
- Ferry update: It’s running
- Fifteen years on, the zombie still flies
- Fighting crime with ‘please’
- Fighting poverty: Albany has a plan
- Filbert farm: Kickstarting an orchard
- Film nudity at City Hall? Sorry, no!
- Finally, a new Albany pot ordinance!
- Finally, a useful campaign ad
- Finally, inside Albany Performing Arts Center
- Finally: Albany-Lebanon canal deal
- Finding a bikeway route that works
- Finding a railroad relic at the Albany yard
- Finding fault with a bicycle detector
- Finding out why street is blocked
- Findings back demolition of three houses
- Finished mural: Casting light in the dark
- Fire cause confirmed; it’s used fireworks
- Fire pix looked bad; but food unaffected
- Fire prevention: Overpass slope cleared of brush
- First Avenue in lights
- First step at ‘Calapooia Commons:’ Excavation
- First tents appear at Marvin’s Garden
- First the corona, and then an election
- Fish adds bold graphic to its front wall
- Fish of Albany gets a new, bigger home
- Fitness court opens at Burkhart Park
- Fitness court: Installation is taking place
- Five bike bills: Who needs them?
- Fix this bridge? Yes, state plans to do so
- Fix time change issue? Oregon blows it
- Fixing Albany streets: more work on Queen
- Fixing cracks at Hackleman Park: The story
- Fixing urban renewal’s levy grab (amended)
- Fixing Water Avenue, Part II
- Fixup projects on CARA agenda
- Flag salute’s short history
- Flags above the freeway in spite of ODOT
- Flags at Albany City Hall: Taking a look
- Flags at City Hall: Issue returns to life
- Flags at half-staff, for our country too
- Flap over a portable toilet: One question
- Flash: Bike lights on bridge once again blink
- Flooding in May? Well, yes, at Bryant Park
- Flower sculpture update: Lights fixed, mostly
- Flowers for Aurelio: A roadside tribute
- Fluoridation: Council makes no move to stop
- Fog lights: Use only when needed
- Follow-up: M’burg fire decision
- Following through at Whitespires Church
- Following up: Yes, new railings were approved
- Food carts coming near I-5 off-ramp
- Food trucks: Council considers many rules
- Food waste pickup in store for Albany
- Food waste: Let the state keep out of it
- For a friendlier council layout
- For a happier Oregon?
- For an Albany rail fan, a sight to enjoy
- For better bus service
- For better reliability: Board OKs PP&L project
- For city, pot tax is not big money
- For clean boots and dry socks
- For less CO2, encourage cycling
- For Liberty, less lawn and more parking
- For now, city’s stuck with an empty bank
- For rail buffs, this Albany track is a gift
- For rail fans, these will be dream homes
- For trucks and others, a risky spot
- For two longtime members, the last meeting
- For Wes Hare, appreciation and a raise
- Forecast: Big jump in level of Willamette
- Forget ‘exchange;’ what about health?
- Forget pot dispensaries for now
- Former gas station site may get a restaurant
- Former tank farm: Vacant lot stirs memories
- Former U.S. Bank downtown changes hands
- Fossil fuels keep us alive
- Fourth and Calapooia: Ignore the old signs
- Fraud alert or another scam?
- Free and civil speech: LBCC makes an elite list
- Free parking, but fines may rise
- Freeway changes: Some questions
- Freeway Lakes: The weeds have taken over
- Freeway life: Why semis get in front of you
- Freeway planning: Slow is the word
- Freezing rain and greenhouse gases
- Fresh air? Forget it
- Fresh crosswalk lines, but why now?
- From a bike you see a lot including this
- From an idea to now: Intermodal center ready
- From car lot to body shop
- From Kmart to WinCo: Numbers
- From Oxford House to a family’s home
- From the Benton sheriff’s log
- From the pothole beat: A splendid repair
- From the wildlife front: Meet a newt
- From trash to apartments: Maybe
- Front yard becomes a colorful meadow
- Fuel bill: We’re not safe yet
- Fuel for Albany: Two gas stations planned
- Fuel tax defeat: Council out of touch
- Fun on a wall: It’s a changing scene
- Fuss over veto prolongs spat on ADUs
- Future Oregon road trips: A question of charge
- GAPS and its grounds in time of corona
- GAPS plans new bus garage
- GAPS: How much is just right?
- Garden center in North Albany to close
- Garden center, N. Albany landmark, to close
- Garden center: New store in same place
- Gates, bells and lights, and yet …
- Gatorade land: Millions at stake
- Gee, it’s just a road sign!
- Get ethanol out of our gas
- Get out of the way, but how?
- Get over the time change: Ride the bike
- Get ready for tree cutting at Monteith Park
- Get this public servant back to work
- Get those trees away from lines!
- Get to know my smart meter? Why?
- Getting a charge downtown? Still checking
- Getting a look at new riverfront pier
- Getting away from it all: Try this lake
- Getting rid of E-waste: Here’s a little story
- Getting rid of junk: It’s not easy or quick
- Getting tough on nuisance houses
- Gibson Hill roundabout less likely
- Gibson Hill: What is, and isn’t, happening
- Gibson Hill: Why they dug into new road
- Giving credit for public art … and it’s free!
- Giving real Vandals a bad name
- Glancing at the river from an aging pier
- Global brewing: How to resist
- GMO dilemma: How to vote?
- Goal in NA rezoning bid: Housing
- Going downtown when the going is slow
- Going downtown? Be aware of cameras
- Going slow: Rattling down Water Avenue
- Good change: Letting the public see
- Good job on voting rights
- Good job: Cox Creek trash dump cleaned up
- Good news for paddlers
- Good news news for Albany ratepayers — unless
- Good news on riverfront path
- Good news on the crime front
- Good progress on Truax Creek Bridge
- Goodbye trees; you’ll be replaced
- Gov’s ‘stay-home’ order has some teeth
- Gov’t shutdown? No, water emergency
- Governor Brown: Expect her to act
- Governor hasn’t decided on self-service gas
- Governor helps open Millersburg reloading center
- Governor Kitzhaber’s choice
- Governor signs bill on ‘Idaho Stop’
- Governor: Tax hikes for seniors?
- Grade school expulsion? See SB 553
- Grant sought to replace this bridge
- Grateful for a bench when fixing a flat
- Grateful for rest areas
- Grazing on the courthouse lawn, a llama
- Great bond sale, and a question
- Great roadside attractions: Farm stands
- Green fuel, the costly alternative
- Green light for M’burg truck stop
- Green light? Maybe the guy was right
- Greens on how to kill good jobs
- Grocery carts: a tech solution?
- Grocery takes right approach
- Groundwater pumping worries neighbor
- Group exercise in the Age of Corona
- Group explores moving old church
- Group finds a site for its tiny-house village
- Group hopes to purchase old roller rink
- Group threatens to sue Albany over rain permit
- Group wants Hazelwood Park for tiny houses
- Growth in numbers: The local census results
- Guardrail ends: Don’t hit them!
- Guess what’s back on Waverly Lake
- Guess what: ADUs on Albany agenda again
- Guess what: It takes two-thirds
- Guess what: It was cooler than last year
- Gun bill 941: Try for answers
- Gun bill hearing raises questions
- Gun bill would force difficult choice
- Gun bill’s effect: Nobody knows
- Gun bill: Its logic is not enough
- Gun bills: Surprise would be nice
- Gun control: What kind?
- Gun hearing: Did testimony matter?
- Gun hearing: Reason still missing
- Gun licenses: Why the hostility?
- Gun rights ‘sanctuary’ idea still pending
- Gun sense? Like in Britain, Australia?
- Guns and the Oregon Constitution
- Guns at risk of an ERPO order
- Guns on legislative agenda — already!
- Habitat house: This one is special
- Habitat saved amid housing
- Hands off Bloom Lane, except …
- Hands off the property tax cap
- Hanging baskets: Questions and answers
- Hanging out in center of a highway couplet
- Happy horses in winter?
- Happy New Year (we hope)
- Happy new year: Here’s how
- Hard to find: A volunteer for planning
- Hard week ahead for CARA board
- Hare case: Facts prove state wrong
- Hare case: Small fine, huge principle
- Hare’s case heads for appeal
- Has Kitz earned fourth term?
- Hasso on Facebook!
- Hate to harp on the time, but …
- Hate to see that start again
- Have the time? Don’t look up just yet
- Having failed, big white oak had to go
- Hayes inquiry: A waste of time
- Hazelwood Park: What about the trees?
- Hazelwood project: It’s well under way
- Hazelwood: Sale of little city park is complete
- Headway on church move and PO
- Health care and pay: High and higher
- Health care: What Merkley said then …
- Health expense and hospitals
- Health plan savings unlikely
- Hearing coming up on riverfront method
- Hearing update: Exhaust fan OK’d
- Hearings set on new apartment complex
- Heat at Waverly Lake: No pedaling for now
- Heavy work done well
- Heavy work: New park crossing in place
- Hector’s legacy: Farm land saved
- Help Fish rebound from street project
- Help for chained dogs
- Help for Hackleman house buyers?
- Helping Hands floats proposal for housing
- Helping the local economy: Here’s how
- Hemp seed site gets Albany’s OK
- Henshaw Farm: How the plans changed
- Here they are again, the little …
- Here’s a kind of plastic we should ban
- Here’s a message concerning hh-today
- Here’s a plug for sweet taste; really!
- Here’s a target, but don’t shoot
- Here’s one thing erosion does
- Here’s something to ban: Hard plastic wraps
- Hey CARA, restore Thurston Canal
- Hey, this is NOT a dump!
- Hey, try to keep your favorite eatery afloat
- HH-Today.com!
- Hickory Hollow worries neighbors
- Hickory Hollow, a N. Albany first
- Hickory Hollow: What renters will pay
- High above river, a nest fight looms
- High hopes, now weeds
- High school cell towers get city OK
- High water closes Bryant Way
- High-water gates see action once again
- Highlight on the Clark Path: Osprey in their nest
- Highway 20 project worries Midway Farms
- Highway 20 work downtown? Alas, no
- Highway access? No problem!
- Hiking up the overpass in the smoke
- Hillary stories remind me of 2008
- Hint: Don’t try this at home
- HIP: A milestone for Albany’s metals industry
- Historic bridge piers: In the way
- Historic rail line is getting new life
- Historic review: Dahl’s project wins approval
- History revived: A cow’s head on Second Ave.
- Ho-hum: No end to parking saga
- Home buyers’ letters ‘banned’? Not really
- Home construction picks up, see?
- Home Improvement on 14th
- Home improvement, an update
- Homegrown meal service is ready to expand
- Homeless and the quest for Hub City Village
- Homeless camp site now has a name
- Homeless camps on Albany paths: An update
- Homeless parking ban proposed near shelter
- Homeless village drops bid for Hazelwood Park
- Homeowners under tax attack
- Honor leakers; don’t punish them
- Hope for saving Albany Hydro
- Hope they catch whoever did this
- Hope this doesn’t happen often
- Hoping for a park bridge, some day
- Hoping to fill a supermarket hole
- Hot air precedes legislature
- Hot protest gets appellant nowhere
- House lifts red-light camera limits
- House OK’s cell phone crackdown
- House OKs campus culture bill
- House repair caught up in historic review
- House repairs lead to lengthy hearing
- House rescue: Checking on Fourth Avenue
- House votes to fool voters
- House wants more ‘voters’
- House wants passing lane clear
- Housing development appears stuck in limbo
- Housing here? Maybe later, but not yet
- Housing issue still divides Albany council
- Housing panel to consider a new city tax
- Housing stock gets a boost
- Housing task force: Looking for new ideas
- Housing upgrade coming on E. First
- How a demonstration for justice is done right
- How about a bridge here?
- How about a civic auditorium?
- How about a fuel tax and bond issue too?
- How about a local gas tax?
- How about a tax on heating?
- How about dinner in the alley?
- How about fixing this bridge?
- How about meadows instead?
- How about more city taxes?
- How about snow removal?
- How about some service here?
- How Albany got the Swan Lakes
- How best to slow speeders
- How deadly is sugar really?
- How did session lessen ‘housing crisis’?
- How DO they survive?
- How does this help with the ‘climate’?
- How fads change: This sign reminds us
- How federal regs waste money
- How feds could stop gun sales
- How high’s the water Mama?
- How high’s the water now?
- How Independence got its hotel
- How state intends to fix Hwy. 20 junctions
- How the ivory bill would hurt
- How things look on Periwinkle Creek
- How this dumb law works: Check it out
- How to boost freeway capacity
- How to confiscate guns under SB 525?
- How to create lots of felons
- How to fix Albany-Corvallis Highway
- How to foil would-be thieves
- How to get cleaner streets
- How to impede traffic flow
- How to reduce crossing waits
- How to ruin a fine spring: gun control
- How to run like Coolidge and win
- How to save local commerce?
- How to solve fight over canal
- How to solve immigration
- How to solve the street repair dilemma
- How to use Benton’s Bailey Line
- How useful are bike lanes? Take a look
- How wetland rules waste money
- How would bridge toll work?
- How’s our water supply holding up?
- How’s the view from up there?
- Hub City Village gets ready to celebrate
- Hub City Village plans to break ground
- Hub City Village’s next step: Cutting trees
- Hub City Village: Completion in sight
- Hub City Village: It’s almost complete
- Hub City Village: To house Albany ‘unhoused’
- Hub City Village: When it aims to be done
- Human relations: Council puts panel ‘on hold’
- Hung up at Landmarks: New set of stairs
- Hunt for cougar bills is on again
- Hush-hush in Millersburg
- Hwy. 20 gridlock: Quit making it worse
- Hwy. 20 landmark gets an upgrade
- Hwy. 20 plans include pieces of bikeway
- Hwy. 20: One danger still ignored
- Hwy. 20: Your chance to speak up
- Hwy. 34 and bike path: Checking things out
- Hwy. 34 bikeway: Still not quite open
- Hwy. 34 loses ‘safety’ label
- Hwy. 34 path: What it costs, and saves
- Hyak Park gets a new restroom
- Hyak Park: Keeping it clean
- Hydro may resume any time
- I-5 bridge toll: How would it work?
- I-5 expansion: A ‘change in direction’
- I-5 update: Barrier’s coming along
- Ice versus hot air
- Idaho stop: The bill shows signs of life
- Ideal for this weather: New splash pad
- Ideas for better biking? Tell the MPO
- Ideas to fix traffic tieups on Hwy. 20
- Ideas to make biking safer: Take the survey
- Idle thoughts: We’re lacking lakes
- Idling, or stop and restart? Now we know
- If a tidal wave comes …
- If disaster strikes
- If it moves, get out of the way
- If not a street fee, what?
- If sardines could fly, would they?
- If the Big One cuts those bridges
- If the Big One hits in winter
- If this is climate change…
- If you build a wall, somebody will spray it
- If you like trains, here’s something for you
- IGA opening date is in sight
- Illegal camping: Council softens penalty
- Imagine three hundred houses here instead
- Imagine: A riverboat used to tie up here
- Immigration reform: Not so fast
- Immigration: Phrases don’t help
- Immigration: Steps to avoid
- Impact fees and the price of new houses
- Improper zone? Driver presents his case
- In 1932, this had ‘the pleasant atmosphere’
- In a rest stop contest, the Indians win
- In Albany project, a Swedish connection
- In Albany, a new street of lights
- In Bryant Park, a hazard tree comes down
- In budget news, Carnegie library stays ‘open’
- In changing times, one box too many
- In deep water on Syria
- In fatal bike crash, waiting for the cause
- In Lexington, making streets last longer
- In NA, a country lane’s upgrade
- In North Albany woodland, reducing the risk
- In North Albany, a plan for 195 dwellings
- In other news, the return of wild turkeys
- In pot campaign cash, no contest
- In South Albany, a plan to help big subdivision
- In support of bottle redemption center
- In the box: ‘And last and least a copper penny’
- In the Covid ‘freeze,’ expect no arrests
- In the dark: Look at those sculpture lights
- In the summer heat, Albany mural grows
- In Willamette area, a renovation
- In winter’s grip
- Incident on I-5: Bizarre and sad
- Income taxes: The April lament
- Incomplete: Another sign of supply problems
- Increase proposed in plan for apartments
- Increase sought in CARA’s waterfront contract
- Independence: What if not?
- Indian names: A good solution
- Industry or orchard? Take a look at the site
- Inflation: Trash disposal going up as well
- Infrastructure bonanza: What about streets?
- Infringing a right: What happens next?
- Initiative takes aim at utility fees
- Initiative update: Albany accepts four
- Initiative would ban Oregon PDT
- Injured mayor back at council table
- Innovation on Columbus: A green bike lane
- Interlude at a small railroad crossing
- Invite Latinos to join ‘Night Out’
- Iowa: Too much hoopla and weight!
- IP’s Albany Mill: A demolition update
- Is it running? Checking on Albany Hydro
- Is it twilight for downtown library?
- Is this pile of river debris a problem yet?
- Is this project really necessary?
- Is this really worth $269,780?
- Issue: Updating downtown streets
- Issues for ’21: Street hoops and food trucks
- It didn’t feel much like spring, but …
- It doesn’t feel warmer
- It looked like a close call
- It may look bad, but don’t worry
- It may not look all that ‘noxious,’ but …
- It only looked smoggy
- It really wasn’t about actual mushrooms
- It was a cowardly crime (2nd update)
- It was a wet, dark and stormy day
- It was just a trickle
- It’s a 17-hole course for now
- It’s a headwind until you turn around
- It’s about money, not studying
- It’s all a matter of context and frame
- It’s an hour later, stupidly
- It’s back! Postal convenience!
- It’s beginning to look like a school
- It’s beginning to look like the plan
- It’s legal, but is it smart?
- It’s less bumpy on Queen Avenue tracks
- It’s not corona; no, it’s just asphalt
- It’s not taxes that fuel N.A. growth
- It’s not what it looks like
- It’s open: Inside Waverly Place
- It’s summer, so paddle Waverly Lake
- It’s the season — for the rivers to rise
- It’s the season: Algae choke Waverly Lake
- It’s to keep our power on …
- Italian paper company has Millersburg plans
- Ivory bill: Let’s create another crime
- Ivory carvers get apparent reprieve
- Jerky’s long gone; signs remain
- Jim Clausen, a full life remembered
- Jo Rae Perkins’ uphill run
- Just a short break …
- Just another day on the Dave Clark Path
- Just another day on the riverfront
- Just another day on the RR track
- Just another home foreclosure
- Just crossing a bridge leads to questions
- Just how is this a ‘permanent’ path?
- Just in time to watch another train
- Just sayin’: Looks fine without the chimneys
- Just what is this?
- Just what you want in city logo
- Just wondering — why no crossing arms
- Justice site convenient for North Albany
- Kafka’s ghost on Belmont street
- Kalapuya & Calapooia: The same people
- Keep our enemies out
- Keep passenger trains rolling
- Keeping track as crossings change
- Keeping track of 80-lot townhouse project
- Keeping track of Hub City Village
- Keeping track: When will car store open?
- Keeping up with our bridges
- Keeping us going: Highway work
- Kids and a little wild space
- Kids want plastic bags banned
- Kitzhaber doesn’t know?
- Kitzhaber wants a tax hike
- Kitzhaber would tax bird seed
- Klamath dams: What was left out
- Kmart site: Looking for a cleanup
- Labor Day in Albany: Trash pile has moved
- Land deal proposed for old church
- Land division for 80 townhomes approved
- Land donation near Oak Creek Trail
- Land-use hearing on Sixth Ave. apartments
- Landfill hearing goes on for four hours
- Landmark oak survives another storm
- Landmarks denial appealed to Albany council
- Landmarks dispute: It’s not over yet
- Landmarks OK’s three downtown renovations
- Landmarks OKs work on historic depot
- Landmarks says project is just too big
- Landmarks struggle: Is this historic?
- Lane splitting: Experience says yes
- Lanes for bikes and leaves
- Late November at the ocean’s edge
- Late-night errand and where it leads
- Later this year, major work along Queen
- Latest Covid order: Farmers’ market unaffected
- Launch at your own risk
- Lawmakers labor over weed; why?
- Leaf piles in the street: Patience, please
- Learned something of our (very) distant past
- Learning from Colorado recalls
- Learning more about Mr. & Mrs. Johnson
- Leave helmet law alone
- Leave the time alone!
- Leaves: a challenge for the GMO gang
- Lebanon, a town that works
- Left angled backing in, still too weird?
- Left in the dust: old Thurston Canal
- Left out of the climate summit
- Left-lane bill: Who needs it?
- Legal pot: You’ll have to wait
- Legislation could wait
- Legislation, baking, overtime and crackers
- Legislators leave cyclists alone
- Legislators work on new pot law
- Legislature quits; we’re safe!
- Lehigh Park: Waiting for special playground
- Lemonade stands: We should support them
- Less flushing? It’s the law!
- Less parking: Does the state have the right?
- Let Albany prevent tow extortion
- Let CARA do its job: Revival
- Let CARA pick up the pace
- Let CARA shoot for tangible gains
- Let CARA think big and then quit
- Let state open access to Oregon beaches
- Let the gun bills die
- Let the post office share the load
- Let the public listen and watch
- Let’s get them ‘flying’
- Let’s have justice for email leaker
- Let’s have smarter school speed zones
- Let’s have universities run leaner
- Let’s hear it for … the alley
- Let’s hear it for bike racks
- Let’s hear it for farmers
- Let’s hear it for tan lawns
- Let’s keep that new bikeway clear
- Let’s let trucks go faster on I-5
- Let’s not be afraid
- Let’s talk about books
- Liberal America, for now
- Library survey: A chance to say something
- Life in a railroad town
- Life lessons from the sheriff’s log
- Life under state Carbon Office in 30 years?
- Lift parking limits near West? Council says no
- Lift your eyes to the tangled web overhead
- Lighting the Dave Clark Path: A tryout
- Lighting the path; how about rules?
- Lights and sirens from the rear
- Lights in the rain: Watching the show
- Like the air now, Cox Creek Path is clean
- Like the movie? No, not quite
- Lines on Independence: Oops!
- Linn board backs gun rights
- Linn board nixes Millersburg land application
- Linn board says no to bridge district idea
- Linn County and the Wheelhouse trees
- Linn County completes Wheelhouse purchase
- Linn County considers adding courthouse wing
- Linn County drops plan to buy Albany church
- Linn County may buy building on Seventh
- Linn County may buy riverside Wheelhouse
- Linn County Museum, worth a visit
- Linn County rents space for Veterans Services
- Linn County to join dispensary ban
- Linn dog control: Sheriff in charge
- Linn law enforcers: Trust the people
- Linn set to widen Riverside Drive
- Linn sheriff: Don’t make criminals of honest citizens
- Linn. Benton: Polar opposites
- Linn: No money for SB 941 gun bill
- Liquor change? A bad move
- Liquor initiatives: What price?
- Liquor setup: What’s to fix?
- List of Albany city candidates grows to 10
- List of highway projects raises questions
- Listen if you like…
- Listening to Bernie Sanders
- Little libraries: Long may they last
- Livable Albany: Council updates the code
- Local gas tax comes up again
- Locally, state eases corona shutdown
- Lochner Road stays closed at its south end
- Lochner Road still closed for subdivision work
- Locomotives: Old, not so old, and really new
- Log pile leaves plenty of boating room
- Logged park trees were in poor shape
- Logs leaving for Asia (I think)
- Long live this library!
- Long road to a sidewalk
- Long saga’s next step: Fill the hole and sell it
- Long train, long wait at Albany crossings
- Long-term surveillance? No, don’t worry
- Longtime Albany bike shop is closing
- Look around and watch housing grow
- Look at ‘global warming’ today
- Look at all that wasted rain
- Look at the Albany Skatepark now: Wow!
- Look at the spruced-up community center
- Look at two bills that sound good
- Look at what’s not there
- Look for reopening of Dave Clark Path
- Look what someone has already done
- Look what’s painted on the street
- Look, there’s still snow
- Look: A stand-up guy in politics
- Looking around on a cold autumn ride
- Looking around on Corona Day Four
- Looking around on the Ellsworth bridge
- Looking at bridge replacement … in Corvallis
- Looking at the dark side of spring
- Looking for a ‘wooden dog’ at Waverly Lake
- Looking forward to market’s return
- Looking in as Monteith Park is rebuilt
- Looking up at signals, and here’s why
- Looking up: Something’s not right
- Looks like a case of trouble on the wire
- Looks of electric equipment bug mayor
- Loooking out the window on a rainy day
- Losing a store is like …
- Loss of public access: Blame the vandals
- Lost and stranded, without ID
- Lost downtown? Help is coming
- Lost downtown? Help is coming
- Lost-book story ripples across U.S.
- Lots of gun chatter: All but useless
- Love’s to be ready this summer
- Low carbon fuel: You may pay more
- Low turnout no big deal
- Lowe’s decision may come soon
- Lowe’s not yet ready to decide
- Lowe’s says it will open in December
- Lowe’s to start in ’15; K Mart leaving
- Lowe’s wants to change the deal
- Lower fire insurance rates? Maybe
- Luckiamute access plan: Still afloat
- Luckiamute launch: A new delay
- Luckiamute launch: Too complicated?
- Luckiamute paddlers face longer wait
- Luckiamute park: News on the trail
- Lucky to be alive: Tree falls on Linn Ave.
- Luxury on the Starlight’s tail
- Lyon Street blossoms in the rain
- M’burg: New plant, more houses
- M86: A question of more debt
- M90 is a threat to party hacks
- Madison School: Renovation and history
- Madison Street due for smoother pavement
- Magic at the Farmers Market
- Mail fail: What it could say
- Main Street circle: Just landscape it
- Main Street fix will have to wait
- Main Street’s roundabout of rocks
- Making cigarettes illegal?
- Making everything harder: growth
- Making it official: Sprenger runs for Linn job
- Making new house fit old neighborhood
- Making repairs at historic building on Third
- Making room for a manufactured home
- Making this place livable again
- Making waves: New river law nears passage
- Malheur matters: Injustice exposed
- Manhole cover points to Michigan
- Map changes prove costly to some
- Maple Lawn reopening is up to GAPS
- Maple Lawn replay: Preschool to close
- Maple Lawn to continue as a preschool
- March starts with (what else?) rain …
- Marijuana initiative: What’s in it
- Markers tell long history of scholarship
- Marriage: May the court step back
- Mascots? Cut the baloney…
- Mass shootings: A response
- Math standards not met: Here’s why
- Mating season: Cover your mirrors
- May city use $1 million to shelter the homeless
- Maybe this path only looks closed
- Maybe this will calm you down
- Mayor may veto accessory housing
- Mayor: Let’s move that old church
- Mayor: No more than $10 as a city fee
- Mayors back Amtrak rail preference
- McDonald’s face-lift: Impressions
- McDonald’s pays stiff street fee
- Mealtime for the squirrel
- Meanwhile, at City Hall …
- Meanwhile, back in the yard …
- Meanwhile, the pipeline?
- Measure 92: Lots of airy assertions
- Measure numbers: Puzzle no more
- Median cables prove their worth
- Medical pot: The liberty angle
- Meeting two snails on a rainy day
- Mega Foods site: Zoning seems wrong
- Mega questions now have Mega answer
- Memorial bikeway needs an upgrade
- Memorial on Bryant: Still an open case
- Memorial’s gone; case lingers on
- Memorials speak to us at Talking Waters
- Message on bridges: The rest of the story
- Middle housing appeal: It’s moving fast
- Mileage fee: A rational approach
- Mileage tax clears another hurdle
- Millersburg intermodal center: Working on it
- Millersburg panel OKs truck stop
- Millersburg power vote looks likely
- Millersburg power: The saga resumes
- Millersburg power: Voters seek role
- Millersburg reload hub: Next steps
- Millersburg reloading center: Still waiting
- Millersburg truck stop up for decision
- Millersburg update: In court already
- Millersburg, consider the Power Act
- Millersburg, this is for you
- Millersburg: Change fire service?
- Millersburg: Those tanks may soon be gone
- Mind those terrazzo steps, boys
- Mindless vandalism downtown?
- Minister proves this gun law useless
- Mirror pond still reflects Periwinkle School
- Misdirection: In search of a button for walk
- Mission impossible: ‘Affordable housing’
- Mission’s season: Let the tree sales begin
- Mobile phone crackdown: Questions
- Monday you may have to alter your route
- Money approved for cleaning Waverly Lake
- Monteith update: Stage steel lifted into place
- More ‘wetlands’ insanity
- More affordable housing in Albany? Fat chance
- More apartments on Albany’s east side
- More bike trail news, sort of
- More bulbouts, and a question
- More crossing arms on Water? Not in the plans
- More density: Looking at a request to rezone
- More details on new traffic cameras
- More efficient meetings: Ideas for council
- More fencing at Talking Water
- More guns, fewer gun murders
- More housing: Before the trees are cut
- More kinds of housing may be in store
- More lanes? Don’t hold your breath
- More library hours, but not downtown
- More middle housing: Some have doubts
- More middle housing? Apparently not yet
- More passenger rail: Wake up to the price
- More respect for jurors, please
- More sand on the roads would help
- More signs to slow Spring Hill
- More space for assisted living
- More talk about Albany’s poor streets
- More talk about street money
- More trucks on the road
- More urban renewal? Albany gets a report
- Motorcycle cops again?
- Mounds of chips won’t be wasted
- Move to hoist ‘Pride’ flag shot down
- Moving old church: The latest
- Moving that church: Is there no alternative?
- Much dust on a hot day
- Much improved: I-5 rest areas
- Muddy streams and the future of dams
- Muddy water? It’s no problem, city says
- Multiple-voting fraud? Can’t be done
- Mural nearly done, recalls a ‘Fourth’ tradition
- Music and a chance to ward off Covid too
- Must avoid ‘road departures’
- My corona rides: Here’s another scene
- My OReGO experience: The latest
- My own election day: It’s all over
- My riverfront beat: Brush clearing on the bank
- My town bike’s milestone, sort of
- Mysterious hum: in search of the cause
- Mystery foam in Albany creek
- Mythology downtown: Icarus?
- N. Albany apartments: Open and planned
- N. Albany congestion: Just bear it
- N. Albany groceries and liquor, too
- N. Albany med complex growing
- N. Albany Park project still awaits permit
- N. Albany project switches to 80 townhouses
- N. Albany rebuild beats deadline
- N. Albany Road: This is the year
- N. Albany SamFit reopening is coming up
- N. Albany shoppers: The wait is over
- N. Albany zoning flap: What next?
- N. Albany: Dread the summer of ’15
- N. Albany: More medics too
- N.A. IGA: Wait’s almost over
- N.A. market: City gets site plan
- N.A. Park poised for upgrades
- N.A. Urgent Care back in operation
- N95 masks: A challenge for big heads
- NA apartment plan clears hurdle
- NA grocery: Another step forward
- NA market: A progress report
- NA market: City permit pending
- NA news: Update on Bonaventure
- NA Park: ‘Hazard trees’ have to go
- NA Park: Cleanup and new concepts
- NA Park: Dead trees to be logged
- NA Park: New concepts unveiled
- NA rezoning: Innovation? Forget it
- NA rezoning? What happens next
- NA Road: Commuting fun looms
- NA store target date: September
- NA store: There’s visible progress
- NA Village: dialysis but groceries not yet
- NA zone change runs into opposition
- NA zoning case goes to council
- Name change: Still a work in progress
- Name for Woodland Square? Not yet
- Narrow passage on Cox Creek path
- Narrowing a traffic artery: Brilliant!
- National chain plans Albany tire store
- NE Albany: Plat adds 142 houses
- Near Albany Station, there’s Sidekicks
- Nearly three minutes of surf in the sun
- Need a break? Here, let’s walk
- Need better place to dump junk
- Neighbors air concerns over N.A. bikeway
- Neighbors appeal NA apartments
- Neighbors hope to save park — by buying it
- Neighbors pay the fee and appeal ‘The Banks’
- Neighbors question riverside apartment plan
- Neighbors: P&W Railroad and Water Gardens
- Nerves of steel and real traffic
- New Albany car dealerships in the works
- New Albany council starts a fresh year
- New Albany park is a timely gift
- New Albany schools may get some use
- New apartments rise above Periwinkle Creek
- New asphalt makes for smooth ride
- New attack on crimes and messes
- New bikeway: A noisy test ride
- New city job: Stem problems in Albany parks
- New city trees: A question of depth
- New code on signs: Little change
- New Coffin Butte plan keeps road open
- New Cumberland site has a history too
- New date for Ellsworth bridge work: April 1
- New during Covid era: Drive-up flu shots
- New electoral lines: What the maps show
- New gun law has a strange twist
- New hearing date in zoning fight
- New industry: Not weed but hemp
- New law adds to Oregon’s sanctuary stand
- New LB courts may stay closed by Covid
- New life for an old church?
- New lines may ease Ellsworth traffic flow
- New moving date for Cumberland Church
- New owner plans to divide business site
- New owner’s priority: Restore the course
- New owners renovating historic Barrett House
- New pavers to be torn up, then replaced
- New phase starting in riverfront project
- New pickleball courts: Finished and open
- New playground comes with a ‘warning’
- New rentals in S.E. Albany: Here’s an update
- New roof tops this Cumberland update
- New rules for city planning: Climate, equity
- New shelter space taking shape
- New sign evokes an era long ago
- New signs bid drivers an Albany welcome
- New software and city utility billing delays
- New speed limits: Expect little change
- New start for a site with a sad story
- New station adds a safety feature
- New station opens, and self-service ban ends
- New target for reloading center: September
- New townhouse complex waiting for power
- New traffic cameras: No go-live date yet
- New trail nearly done in North Albany
- New trees downtown: More to come
- New trestle: Wondering about headroom
- New warning signs on the Clark Path
- New year already? Man, that was fast
- New Year’s Eve on the Dave Clark Path
- New Year’s ice in Bryant Park
- New Year’s ride to Luckiamute park
- Newest member joins Albany council
- News for a gray day: Rain tax
- Next Albany chief may be local
- Next flood: Gates on Bryant Way
- Next House speaker, an Albany lawyer
- Next legislature: An editorialist’s feast!
- Next on Hill Street, about 90 new trees
- Next on the riverfront: Hiring consultants
- Next up for regulation: Food carts
- Next year, expect to see green lanes here
- Next year, state to charge for waterway access
- Next year: Raising beams of Ellsworth Bridge
- Nice bike lanes; why so short?
- Nice crossing job …
- Nice day at the beach: Gulls, sand, sea
- Nice job, Albany parks!
- Nice screens but, alas, no tunes
- Nice thought, but safety comes first
- Night of the Purge: Council fires 5 volunteers
- Nine minutes on the southern Periwinkle Path
- Ninth and Oak: Making use of old radio station
- Ninth Avenue campers have until July 8
- No ‘deposit or discharge’ allowed
- No big deal: Noted on the riverfront
- No bond tax for urban renewal, Albany says
- No carbon will mean mandatory mileage tax
- No controversy: Two developments get city’s OK
- No coronavirus in the open countryside
- No end in Millersburg power battle
- No garage with a charger? No problem
- No good choices
- No gun grabbers these
- No hope: One senator per county
- No longer neglected: House rescue is under way
- No longer puzzled by the height of stumps
- No mail on Saturday? Fine!
- No more mystery: Council prepares big loan
- No mystery here: DC Path update
- No mystery, just storage
- No news here: Scooters in a sudden storm
- No off-street parking? It’s code
- No place to be in a storm
- No privacy? Don’t blame NSA
- No respect for ‘Beavers’ rail car
- No show so far at new swift roost
- No signals but no chaos
- No stars at night: Too much light
- No surprise: Council picks $9 as base fee, or tax
- No surprise: Property taxes rise
- No walking on the river, please
- No worries: Not an “oil car”
- No, that’s not a fountain in Waverly Lake
- No, the track’s not clear yet
- No-show bike kids: An explanation
- Noisy idling: UP engines in Albany
- North Albany grocery: It’s official
- North Albany housing project: Another step
- North Albany market: An update
- North Albany Park logging irks some
- North Albany Park: Dying firs to be cut
- North Albany Park: New restroom coming
- North Albany Road work delay likely (with update)
- North Albany to regain a grocery
- Not a boring walk at all
- Not a good time for hill climbing
- Not a little park, but a parklet
- Not a pleasant sight, this site
- Not a trestle, but a temporary platform
- Not an emergency, but call was answered
- Not canceled — One way to avoid the panic
- Not corona: Lochner contract OK’d
- Not exactly close in Millersburg
- Not good enough? But it works
- Not guilty: Why the government lost
- Not just tomatoes: Cool tunes too
- Not much room to pull off
- Not the last market of the year…
- Not your ordinary railroad train
- Not your usual bike path sign …
- Not your usual flotsam and jetsam
- Noted: Some nice new pavement
- Nothing stays secret forever
- Noticing one little tree in winter
- Novak loan clears final hurdle
- Novak’s aims to reopen before fire anniversary
- Novak’s move wins CARA backing
- Novak’s wants to move downtown
- November at Waverly Lake: No aerators yet
- Now and then, on the horizon there’s light
- Now it’s done: Behold the ‘Opera House’
- Now it’s RedHawks almost everywhere
- Now that the ‘hazard trees’ are gone …
- Now that’s ‘economic development’!
- Now you can see the footprint of this project
- Now, in minor crimes, ‘we can’t hold them’
- Now, self-service allowed at gas stations
- Nowhere to hang your hat
- NSA program: It’s not really “surveillance”
- O&C Panel: No conclusion
- O&C Panel: No conclusion
- Obama against sound forest policy
- Obama and his climate hubs
- Obama and the ‘first responders’
- Obama fails to persuade
- Obama strikes the wrong note
- Obama’s budget scare
- Obama, Australia and guns
- Obama, emperor or magician?
- Obama, the climate and cheese
- Obamacare: Look at the cost
- Obie project: The option price & likely timeline
- October: Back to normal on the river
- ODOT adds cameras at key Albany junction
- ODOT appeals M’burg truck stop
- ODOT resolves guardrail question
- ODOT to raise bridge clearance even more
- ODOT’s Albany projects: Here’s an update
- ODOT’s priorities don’t include highways
- ODOT’s solution: Striping or warnings
- ODOT: Raise speed limit for trucks
- OER depot renovation: Plans and money
- Off Oregon, floating windmills
- Off Riverside Drive, a huge wall of straw
- Offender exclusion zone: Why still have it?
- Offer for city land in N.A.: Save it as is
- Offers for ex-bank to be aired in public
- OK, what’s “new,” exactly?
- Old ‘bunker’? A mystery no more
- Old and new on Albany’s east side
- OLd boardwalk to remain unchanged
- Old Book House getting bigger
- Old Book House: It’s nearly done
- Old Book House: The conclusion
- Old book: Back to its house
- Old church comes before council, again
- Old church move up in the air
- Old church prompts yet more council talk
- Old church’s fate still undecided
- Old church: Its fate still not settled
- Old churches: So what about Palestine?
- Old Cox Creek RR bridge comes out
- Old Cumberland site now needs city variance
- Old east Albany: Continuing the tour
- Old gas station site gets attention
- Old growth(?) going south
- Old history? It’s not all that old
- Old house demolition: Not yet
- Old house fix-up OK’d, barely
- Old house talked about at council meet
- Old houses: Council takes the case
- Old look restored to historic building
- Old oaks: Enjoy the view while you can
- Old photos found, in search of their owner
- Old railroad track spurs memories of years ago
- Old roller rink’s future is up in the air
- Old Safeway may get new use
- Old stamps and what they teach
- Old thrift store will become offices
- Olson’s trail bill clears House
- On a bike, ID is wise but not required
- On a dirt trail close to — actually in — town
- On a February morning, tracks in the snow
- On a January afternoon
- On a rainy day, a speed bump explanation
- On a rainy day: Check into bus barn story
- On a ride, when all you see is geese
- On a slow day, check out pheasants…
- On a slow day, watch the river rise
- On a warm day: Bike, lemonade and books
- On ADUs, council plays Groundhog Day
- On ADUs, councilor argues for the aged
- On Albany’s Marion Street: The big lift
- On Albany’s riverfront, there’s a delay
- On Benton’s Bailey Branch: Looking to the future
- On bike safety: Honking doesn’t help
- On Bryant Way, they’re harvesting nuts
- On canal, let’s be reasonable
- On Central School, GAPS will seek more info
- On Clark Path, the wait is nearly over
- On Cox Creek Path, the scenery has changed
- On Cox Creek, bridge replacement coming up
- On Cox Creek, heavy-duty mowing
- On Cox Creek, reminders of a storm
- On Day Three: Sprucing up a ‘secret park’
- On DC Path: Look up and see light
- On Ellsworth, dashed line doesn’t cut it
- On Fourth, house rescue nears its finish
- On fuel, pushing ahead blindly
- On Gibson Hill, repaving due this summer
- On Gibson Hill: The smartest fix
- On Henderson Park playground, here’s more
- On Hill Street, no more bumpy rides
- On Hwy. 34 to the coast: Closure postponed
- On I-5 now, patience is a virtue
- On I-5: If it’s Friday, look out
- On I-5: What’s my lane?
- On July’s agenda: Albany gas tax
- On keeping bikes and motor vehicles apart
- On Linn Avenue, apartment site cleared of trees
- On logging: Obama versus jobs
- On Lyon, less space for cyclists
- On Marion Street, plans for more housing
- On my riverfront beat: That leak is back
- On my way with OReGO, maybe
- On Ninth Avenue, that’s a big sign bridge!
- On Oak Grove, a stump celebrates Ducks
- On Oak Grove, only the kids are missing
- On our money: Let’s try beauty
- On Pacific, from Wendy’s to weeds
- On Palestine Avenue: A view and a mystery
- On passing cyclists
- On passing P&W trains, watch for city names
- On Periwinkle Creek, a preview of spring
- On Periwinkle Creek, somebody cleaned up!
- On Periwinkle Path, a big pile of trash
- On portable toilets, Albany tries again
- On pot, act means state control
- On pot, what yes and no will mean
- On Queen, smoother ride is two years away
- On rail, CA is way ahead of us
- On Railroad Day, service in doubt
- On riverfront: Cleanup possible
- On Riverside, reminders of your speed
- On rural Scenic Drive, there’s a new limit
- On Santiam site, a new plan and permit
- On Second Avenue downtown, a new glow
- On Second Avenue, blank wall now has art
- On Second Avenue, nine trees will fall
- On Second, will radar slow drivers down?
- On shopping carts, Albany tries again
- On Simpson trail: Picking up campers’ trash
- On Spring Hill Drive on Wednesday afternoon
- On stage, but no applause
- On Sunday afternoon, encounter in the rain
- On Sunday night, discovering downtown
- On the blink: Ellsworth bike-on-bridge lights
- On the centennial of a notorious crime
- On the Clark Path, a change is coming
- On the coast, a landmark is gone
- On the coast: No worry about warming
- On the curves of Hwy. 34, a sign upgrade
- On the downtown beat: 1st to move from First
- On the Eagle Trail: A hiker’s thanks
- On the Ellsworth Bridge, no overhead lights
- On the floating dock at Bowman Park
- On the highway Sunday afternoon
- On the horizon: Albany street utility tax
- On the housing front: A home goes in
- On the market: Big church on First Avenue
- On the next-to-last day of summer…
- On the railroad, testing the track for flaws
- On the restaurant beat: Sweet Red’s plans
- On the river: Check that pile of debris
- On the riverbank, an unexpected cleanup
- On the riverfront beat, a case of false alarm
- On the riverfront beat: A fine place for bikes
- On the riverfront beat: Site cleared
- On the riverfront path, what you can see
- On the riverfront path: Fire in a big tree
- On the riverfront, ‘an exciting change’
- On the riverfront, a new convenience
- On the riverfront, a spiffy new intersection
- On the riverfront, Wheelhouse all lit up
- On the riverfront: Freeing creativity
- On the riverfront: More homes going up
- On the riverfront: New use for historic building
- On the riverfront: Noticed something going on
- On the riverfront: Old center has new sign
- On the riverfront: Site for sale
- On the riverfront: Stuff’s going on
- On the riverfront: Treatment for opioid addicts
- On the riverfront: What crossings will cost
- On the riverfront: What kind of development?
- On the riverfront: Wheelhouse news
- On the road, a flashy “stop”
- On the Santiam Canal: Keeping it going
- On the trail: Seen this girl?
- On the waterfront beat: Look up, a cow!
- On the waterfront: Old garage is razed
- On the way to check on Bowers Rock
- On the way to the coast, a slight delay
- On the Willamette on a warm day
- On the Willamette’s dry banks
- On Third Avenue, 8 townhouses get city’s OK
- On this island, you’re surrounded by cars
- On Vine Street, a question of blockages
- On Vine, council nixes permanent encroachments
- On vinyl windows, another skirmish looms
- On Water Avenue, rail history gives way
- On Waverly Lake, it’s phase 2 of algae work
- On Wells Fargo site, a setback for CARA
- On Wells Fargo site, city goes for big potential
- On west side, cluster housing
- Once again, this path attracts vandals
- Once again, trains face budget hurdle
- One dead end on my riverfront beat
- One downtown restoration nearly done
- One fewer check on power
- One man’s big ideas for old church
- One man’s quest for fairness
- One reward for using this path: The view
- One small symbol of decay
- One subdivision and the pressure for housing
- One view from Linn County
- One walnut tree versus eight townhouses
- Only in Albany: Pushing a bear
- Only the players get zilch
- Oops, ballots came out early
- Oops, caught by sea level rise
- Open all the way: Hwy. 34 bikeway
- Open meetings: Let’s keep them so
- Open up closed meetings
- Opening up Vine St. along canal? Not really
- Opposites on grass as well
- OReGO update: Developing doubts
- OReGO update: How about bikes?
- OReGO update: It pays!
- OReGO update: Where did miles go?
- OReGo, slow go or no go: First steps
- OReGO: No hacking is possible
- OReGO: Some year the fun may stop
- Oregon ‘marriage:’ Now what?
- Oregon and the “sanctuary” issue
- Oregon bill on housing and homeless falls short
- Oregon bill would allow lane splitting
- Oregon bill: Save the mammoths!
- Oregon e-waste recycling law in action
- Oregon farming: It’s a big deal!
- Oregon gun bill: A question of signs
- Oregon housing and the governor’s goal
- Oregon might tax the air, almost
- Oregon Passenger Rail: A chance to react
- Oregon prepares for drones
- Oregon pushed toward a carbon tax
- Oregon temps essentially unchanged
- Oregon torments condemned man
- Oregon votes on pot
- Oregon weather: A question of latitude
- Oregon will cut universities loose
- Oregon’s great bag switch is at hand
- Oregon’s neglected state park: Bowers Rock
- Oregon’s useful pamphlet
- Oregon, elephants and mammoths
- Oregon, overrun by crowds
- Oregon: Money and smoking
- Osprey action on the Lyon Street Bridge
- OSU and The Liberty
- Our bridges: The “scour” concern
- Our climate: Still great, right?
- Our cool — and clean — rivers
- Our crime factory in Salem
- Our Days of Corona: Watch construction
- Our EV future and parking on the street
- Our legacy in oak: Auction coming up
- Our libraries: What a great service!
- Our new trash guide: Fun reading
- Our parks: Worth the money
- Our river trails: Worth checking out
- Our rivers: Cleanup pays off
- Our riverside parks: A little more water
- Our sales tax on visitors
- Our schools, an anchor of support
- Our simple gas tax, hard to replace
- Our smallest towns: Any future?
- Our state Capitol: Open and free
- Our straw law: A question of language
- Our valley and its beautiful fields
- Our weather: Better than elsewhere
- Our Willamette River at Christmas time
- Our Willamette: Unlawfully warm?
- Out in the country on a sunny afternoon
- Out of luck at the Albany Bottle Drop
- Out of place: Downtown billboard
- Out on Pirtle Drive, there’s a new sight
- Out on Riverside Drive, there’s this
- Out on the bike as night falls …
- Outhouse can stay, four councilors say
- Outlook for freedom? Grim!
- Outside IP’s shuttered Albany Mill
- Outside, lights; inside, transit and a water issue
- Overhead, our not so blue skies
- Overpass: A diamond jubilee
- Overpass: Archives yield its cost
- Owner confirms plans for former bank
- Owners ask to subdivide Heritage Mall
- Owners plan to rebuild fire-damaged fourplex
- Pacific Power to expand Hazelwood sub
- Pacific pushing back harder
- Pacific scores in M’burg debate
- Pacific to Millersburg: It won’t work
- Paddle access? Yes, but it’s not easy
- Paddlers’ access made easier
- Paddlers’ access: A change in plans
- Paddlers’ access? Hardly!
- Paddlers’ access? Not yet!
- Paddling permit bill still alive?
- Paddling the Willamette: End of Day 2
- Pain at the pump, again
- Paint the lanes green: Safer riding
- Palestine Church: See the progress
- Panel backs Albany ‘bottle drop’
- Panel gets an update on Hub City Village
- Panel improves cell-phone driving bill
- Panel prefers UP as rail route
- Panel settles on lower police-fire bond
- Panel to consider 2-way pattern downtown
- Panel works to shrink liberty
- Panera Bread gives public timely news
- Panera follows through with site plan
- Panera to open where others didn’t last
- Paris accord: Plant more trees
- Park & Ride: Take a look
- Park & Ride: Take a look
- Park closed on a sunny, dry day
- Park concerts: Forget tickets and crowd limits
- Park mystery answered
- Park tree removal comes up before council
- Park tree’s life extended — for the birds
- Park’s open, so let’s ride through it
- Parking and shrubs: Just wondering
- Parking impasse grips council
- Parking lot closed for music and beer
- Parking lot hole, a mystery no more
- Parking lot pothole saga: An update
- Parking outside the lines: What’s too far?
- Parking pattern: Reversing to the left
- Parking strips: Let a thousand flowers bloom
- Parking structures? Let’s hope not
- Parole decision mishandled
- Part of pot tax is … secret?
- Part of the landscape now: Dumped carts
- Passenger rail planning on slow track
- Passenger Rail Project is back
- Passenger rail: The solution
- Path led me back to 1890 train wreck
- Pathways for walking that didn’t work out
- Patience spent, council walks out
- Patience: Getting around to landscaping
- Pausing on a ride to watch …
- Paving with deadline a day away
- Pawn shop opens in former bank branch
- Paying for bags: The honor system at work
- Paying more for recycling less
- Payroll data: CA makes it easy
- Pedaling the rails: Can’t do it here
- Pending bills: End daylight time?
- Periwinkle Bikepath: A ride through tall grass
- Periwinkle Path gets ‘multi-use’ extension
- Periwinkle Path Project Planned
- Periwinkle update: Trash mound is gone
- Periwinkle’s nutrias: There are fewer now
- Permit filed for downtown structure
- Permits filed for apartments on ‘Mega’ site
- Phase 2: Hill Street contract awarded
- Pheasants? NA subdivision filed
- Phone bill: More tax than talk
- Phone book progress? Really?
- Phone books keep on coming
- Phone scams when even breathing is hard
- Phone use banned and what else?
- Phone/driving ban reaches too far
- Phone/driving bill hits a detour
- Phoning while driving can have a stiff price
- Photo enforcement: Albany police want more
- Photo enforcement: Details yet to come
- Photo enforcement: What the city receives
- Photo radar in Albany: A status report
- Photo radar in school zones?
- Photo speed tickets: Not in Albany (yet?)
- Pick up those plastic bags!
- Pickleball at LBCC: Checking on progress
- Pickleball conflict moot; courts not finished
- Pickleball court project starts at LBCC
- Pickleball court repairs: Hope for dry spring
- Pickleball in Albany: Hot matches coming up
- Pickleball news: Hackleman courts fixed up
- Pipeline diggers all over the place
- Pix from a ride: Ties and crossing panels
- Plan ahead for much less water
- Plan for apartments will have public hearing
- Plan for solar ‘farm’ draws a crowd
- Plan is not what homeless need
- Plan set to clean Wavely Lake this summer
- Plan to increase parking on riverfront lot
- Planning board OKs riverside apartments
- Planning board rejects ‘The Banks’ changes
- Planning commission OKs ‘The Banks’
- Planning commission rejects Coffin Butte expansion
- Planning over, it’s building time
- Planning panel opposes pot amendment
- Planning to be better prepared
- Plans filed for closed lube site on NA Road
- Plans for ‘Calapooia Court’: A closer look
- Plans reveal old Safeway’s use
- Plant more dandelions?
- Plastic bag ban, a boon in disguise?
- Plastic bags: A few weeks left to stock up
- Plastic bags: Take 2, so to speak
- Plastic turf and other school ideas
- Platitudes and snooping, too
- Playgrounds: Now all they need is kids
- Plaza street electric bill: How much to expect
- Plenty of space to ride a bike
- PO move? City panel eyes 2 sites
- PO move? City panel keeps talking
- PO stands for ‘passport office’: Why?
- Pocket knives on planes, continued
- Poker room ban? Not this time
- Polco portable potty poll: Now the results
- Police and fire issue: What is art?
- Police and fire stations: Another step
- Police building rises; crime falls
- Police called over candidate’s lawn signs
- Police can cite people for drone offenses
- Police chief finalists face Albany audience
- Police site: Back to Pacific?
- Police site: The access issue
- Police wetlands: A useless expense
- Police/fire panel takes significant step
- Poor Petraeus: Emails?
- Population pressure’s up, but less so here
- Population update: Fodder for a story
- Portable hoops: Code change is for them
- Portable toilets: City’s survey ends today
- Portable toilets: Council renews the debate
- Post office in former Safeway?
- Post office parking: The sequel
- Postal kiosk: Don’t count on it
- Postscript: Why the hole was made so big
- Pot debate ends: Stores can stay
- Pot entrepreneur backs ‘no’ campaign
- Pot in Albany: Sales ban possible
- Pot in Linn: Yes could mean no
- Pot issue still occupies mayor, council
- Pot ordinance up for council vote
- Pot tax and the CA drought
- Pot tax: Wait for the slap-down
- Pot: Council to get list of options
- Potential pot points plotted
- Power deal looks suspicious
- Power failure results in sewage spill
- Power failure: What caused it
- Power fight looms in Millersburg
- Power grab would cost more
- Power grab: Crowd mostly skeptical
- Power: Millersburg council presses on
- Power: The battle of Millersburg
- Preparing Albany’s camp site for homeless
- Prepping for an Albany “rain tax”
- Prettier streets, but at what cost?
- Pretty fancy trees, eh?
- Preventing bad laws is part of the job
- Price of gas, too, hinges on election
- Price of gas: Because we pay
- Prison terms need reform
- Prisons: The main question
- Private liquor sales? Not yet
- Pro-pot talk falls on deaf ears
- Probably not what the builders expected
- Producing taxes but little else
- Progress on crucial Albany rail link
- Progress report in battle against tall grass
- Prolonging Albany demolition controversy
- Promotion’s OK but free speech isn’t?
- Property tax reform: Sure, but how?
- Property tax: Our crazy system
- Property taxes could rise faster
- Proposed on Salem Ave.: An industrial building
- Proposed: Another food franchise on 14th
- Proposed: The Waverly Duck’s return
- Protecting Albany airport from — what?
- Protest blockage: Some questions
- Public art on a dark and stormy night
- Public art project: ODOT gives its consent
- Public art site: More work is planned there
- Public art: What’ll it look like?
- Public art: Wishing for more
- Public comment: Brief would be nice
- Public EV chargers: A question of practicality
- Public gets voice on building looks
- Public records too hard to get
- Public records? OSU resists
- Pump my own? Maybe but not that often
- Pump station on path worries neighbors
- Punishing people for facts: It’s wrong
- Pursuit and shooting: The police statement
- Pushback, but riverfront project moves on
- Putin and the Thief of Kiev
- Putin’s speech: Ominous tones
- Puzzled by something at the Ellsworth Bridge
- Puzzled by what new meter says
- Quake advice doesn’t cut it
- Queen & Geary: The numbers
- Queen Avenue closure to last longer
- Queen Avenue crossing: A saga without end
- Queen Avenue: In search of name’s origin
- Queen Avenue: Post-paving questions, answers
- Queen crossing on state’s agenda
- Queen crossing to remain bumpy
- Queen crossing: Now, a noise complaint
- Question for a slow day: Why square?
- Question for the DEQ: How much and when?
- Question: When will Queen Avenue reopen?
- Questioning ‘sharrows’ on downtown couplet
- Questioning a simple thing, and the answer
- Questions I had about school fire
- Quick action, good deed
- Quick repairs in the middle of the night
- Quick sale: Council likes Lepman proposal
- Quick sale: Historic home gets new owner
- Quiet zones in Albany: Better not
- Quite a transformation on Santiam Road
- Quiz for city folks: What’s this crop?
- Quiz update: Name that tree
- Racing on Second Avenue? Not exactly
- Radar speed signs prove effective
- Rail activity at reloading site: What’s up?
- Rail bridge reaches its century mark
- Rail car graffiti: A three-minute wait
- Rail car on fire in P&W yard
- Rail plan points to money trouble
- Rail route: Keep it simple
- Rail solution around the corner
- Rail study: Bypass Albany?
- Railroad safety on Cox Creek Path
- Rain and tax talk arrive together
- Rain and the cost of compliance
- Rain tax … uh … fee is coming
- Rain tax ? Uncertainty prevails
- Rain tax average: $9 monthly
- Rain tax sidelight: A little mystery?
- Rain tax won’t be called that
- Rain tax: A hint on its likely size
- Rain tax: What does EPA really want?
- Rain, climate change and the facts
- Raising those manhole covers: Coming up
- Rally in the cold: Signs and songs
- Rambling while watching a freight roll by
- Rand Paul’s simple question
- Rats! Council hears what can and can’t be done
- Ray of hope: Three bills on DST
- Razing 300 W. First: Three bids received
- RC ‘drones:’ Legal how long?
- Ready and used: West Albany’s new courts
- Ready for a roadside nap?
- Ready for an Albany gas tax?
- Rear windows: Small bill, big principle
- Rebuilding Hill Street: No ‘taking’ of property
- Rebuilding of Hill Street coming up
- Rebuilding Sunrise and two streets
- Recommendation: Scrap Spring Hill oval
- Recycling no-nos: Some surprises
- Red light cameras: Another look
- Red light cameras: What the report says
- Red oak spared, for now, in Takena Park
- Red tape unwound: The shed can go
- Red-light cameras: Keep them or …?
- Red-light runners? Maybe not
- Red-light violations: Let’s check
- Redistricting’s effect: Less protection, not more
- Reducing carbon without being forced
- Referee approves 80-townhouse land division
- Reflecting on council rooms here and there
- Reflections on a roadside litter walk
- Reflections on our lack of peace
- Relic of video-store era will vanish
- Reload project faces competition
- Remember Dave Clark
- Remember Pheasant Run? Taking a look
- Remembering a cyclists’ friend
- Remembering Linn’s Steve Druckenmiller
- Remembering Stathos and Albany bike ideas
- Reminders of the summer season…
- Remodel on Santiam Hwy.: Here’s an update
- Remote session OKs Albany police contract
- Remotely, council OK’s corona loan program
- Removal of Takena gravel bar under way
- Renewable gas? Company sounds hopeful
- Renovation under way at the ‘old City Hall’
- Renovations complete: A landmark house
- Reopening Queen: There’s been a delay
- Rep. Olson’s plan: He’ll file again
- Rep. Schrader on Syria: Sort of right
- Repairs and paint downtown
- Repaving ahead on Washington and Queen
- Repaving Gibson Hill: Project set to start
- Repaving Gibson Hill: Wait till next year
- Repaving job to start on Washington Street
- Repealing time change may save lives
- Repeated chore: Rubbish on the river
- Replace Hazelwood Park? Not anytime soon
- Report but don’t confront or shoot
- Report on encampment: A ‘garden’ it ain’t
- Report released on fatal bike crash
- Report: Cougar follows Benton hikers
- Republic drops landfill appeal, will try again
- Request to council: Repeal exclusion zone
- Request: Angled parking on one block of Fourth
- Request: Remove school speed zone
- Request: Road in Oak Creek nature area
- Residents plead for their quiet neighborhood
- Resolving the issues? Fat chance!
- Restive rurals have had enough
- Restoration downtown: An update
- Restoration grant request runs into trouble
- Restoration planned at downtown corner
- Restroom outside depot: Still in the works
- Return to Sunrise Park, a four-minute tour
- Return to the cycling front
- Returning empties during Days of Corona
- Revised: CARA and the Eagles
- Revisiting a perplexing, puzzling puddle
- Revisiting Madison St., site of a safety project
- Revisiting memories of tennis long ago
- Revisiting Pirtle: A station in rail history
- Revisiting that old track: What’s ‘FRA 224’?
- Revival of the east side: Another step
- Rezoning allows gas pumps at SE Albany site
- Rezoning: Are neighbors protected?
- Ride turns into farm tour, sort of
- Riding at dusk: A point about bike lights
- Riding in a heat wave: Saved by big trees
- Riding in the ‘bike gutter’: Clean but risky
- Riding the Waverly Duck — seriously?
- Rift averted; pot ban passes
- Right on time, back after a long trip
- Rising sea level: Where?
- River art: One man’s work to make us smile
- River site blocked; blame criminals
- River View project: Still in planning stage
- River viewing piers being rebuilt
- River’s rise closes Bryant Park
- River’s rise stops Albany hydro
- Riverbank under trash attack again
- Riverfront beat: A gap and what caused it
- Riverfront beat: No place for naps
- Riverfront beat: signs of impending construction
- Riverfront beat: Taking a look at The Banks
- Riverfront beat: Townhouses to replace garage
- Riverfront beat: What’s up along the Clark Path
- Riverfront beat: Wheelhouse update
- Riverfront construction takes a little longer
- Riverfront contractor gets OK to start
- Riverfront crossings’ price has gone up
- Riverfront design contract up for CARA action
- Riverfront designs: a chance to speak up
- Riverfront development question: How much?
- Riverfront idea: A little Pike Place
- Riverfront items: New access; park steps
- Riverfront news: Takena’s dock is ready
- Riverfront path gets a short fence for safety
- Riverfront path: there’ll be light
- Riverfront planning kicks off with open house
- Riverfront project includes work on crossings
- Riverfront project: Albany candidates answer
- Riverfront project: Check the final design
- Riverfront project: Keeping track of progress
- Riverfront project: Report from open house
- Riverfront project: Where things stand now
- Riverfront redesign project gets green light
- Riverfront update: Bryant Park’s closed
- Riverkeeper, Albany file proposed settlement
- Riverside apartments get renewed city OK
- Riverside apartments post what they’ll cost
- Riverside bike link getting closer
- Riverside bike route: Not so fast
- Riverside is celebrating its 100-year-old hall
- Riverside path blocked for sewer project
- Riverside site: The trash is gone
- Riverside trail: Passage blocked at Bowman
- Riverside trail: Public access restored
- Riverside trash would be a federal offense
- Riverside update: Closure set soon
- Riverside widening: Next spring
- Road and bridge plan: Check it out
- Road bill’s death: Who’s to blame
- Road construction: Maybe, maybe not
- Road fee: Time to pull the plug
- Road fee: What’s the problem?
- Road request in nature area is blocked
- Road use fee, a year away
- Road user fee goes up too
- Road user fee: An update
- Road user tax: Another dud
- Road’s not dry, yet
- Road-fee bill is coming up
- Road-user-fee bill stalls in Salem
- Roadside ditches, wetlands rules
- Roadside junk: Any answers?
- Robot cars and blind corners
- Rocks in a hard place: No more camping
- Rougher ride vs. longer road life
- Roundabout ‘art’ threat is averted
- Roundabout leads for Gibson-Crocker
- Roundabout news: It’ll look better
- Roundabout plan: ‘It’s too much’
- Roundabout rule: Use your blinker
- Roundabout: no wall or fence
- RR bridge could use a facelift
- Rulers never rest: More work for planners
- Rumor to fact: W.R. Grace to close plant
- Running for Albany office: Two surprises
- Rural jobs in Nike bill?
- Rushing to get rock out of Coffin Butte
- S. Albany getting better cell coverage
- Sad to say, right-lane bill advances
- Safe doors secured; still waiting for time capsule
- Safe route to school awaits kids
- Safer school routes: Albany proposes two
- Safety? How did we survive?
- Sailing fun on Waverly Lake
- Sale of old church: Council agrees
- Sale pending of downtown landmark
- Salem bridge bill involves Linn, Benton
- Salem firm builds Albany eyecare office
- Salem’s water scare: What we can learn
- Sales tax? A closer look
- Salvation to redemption? City says no
- Samaritan has eye on Millersburg
- Samaritan’s Geary clinic to expand
- Same old question, and the answer
- Same power, higher prices
- Same story at Henderson Park: Slow supplies
- Sampling a smooth new street; can’t resist
- Sanders and his 12-point plan
- Santa Maria Ave.: A shortcut to new school
- Santiam Canal: A deal looks possible
- Santiam Canal: The problem of the current
- Santiam Canal: Two money disputes
- Santiam Canal: Where dollars flow
- Saturday means market day
- Saved by the Russians?
- Saving a life: They knew how
- Saving a woodland: Status report
- Saving Central School — with heat louvers
- Saving Nauru? Or we could try…
- Saving oaks? It’s trees versus sidewalks
- Saving space on Interstate 5
- Saving this relic may cost the city
- Sawing for schools: Oaks find new life
- Say goodbye to Cox Creek dam
- SB 554 puts gun issue before council
- SB 941 has gun logic on its side
- Scale back the Albany riverfront project?
- Scenery getting cleaned along Albany paths
- Scenes from the Clark and Periwinkle trails
- Scenic Albany: Thoughts on the Santiam Canal
- School bond and the price of mocha?
- School bus video bill fades out
- School cell towers will pay off turf
- School construction: Taking a look
- School debate: Money and more money
- School projects: There’s progress, mostly
- School zone again: Will council act?
- School zone issue: Here’s the latest
- School zone ticket: Defendant prevails
- Schrader’s amendment: Bad idea
- Science at work: The effect of AC
- Scooter agreement up for council action
- Scouting EV chargers and finding Oregon duds
- Sea level rise: So what?
- Sea level stays level… I think
- Sea level update: Still not alarmed
- Secession in California?
- Second Avenue mural: Here’s the artist
- Second Chance: A big deal for Albany homeless
- Second day of flooding around Albany
- Second thoughts on returning empties
- Second turn lane from First: Not in sight
- Section of NA park now a clearcut
- See how clear of vines this path is now
- See you soon …
- Seed versus seed in the valley
- Seeing green, or not, on Madison Street
- Seeing old friends on a quiet Albany street
- Seeing red: Take a look at W. Thornton Lake
- Seeing that hull brings back memories
- Seen from the path: A few questions
- Seen up close, those sewer grates are safe
- Self-serve gas: Bill offers the option
- Self-service at PO: Not a sure thing
- Self-service gas in emergencies?
- Self-service gas: It’s a ho-hum topic now
- Self-service gas? Better not
- Senate hopeful pays Albany a visit
- Senate walkout: It’s not about climate
- Senate wants more expensive fuel
- Senator Close makes it official
- Senior center: What to call it when it reopens?
- Seniors ask about future of Albany center
- Seniors make requests about center
- Seven blocks: Bike safety on Madison Street
- Sewage plant: The sludge saga continues
- Sewer project has first real test: It works!
- Sewer project on the Clark Path
- Sewer rates go — where else? — up
- Sheep killed as trailer flips
- Shelter seeks housing for ex-felons
- Sheriff’s report: ID theft hits IRS
- Sheriff: No evidence of homicide
- Sherman Street lot cleared of tents and stuff
- Shifting blame: State may sue
- Shooting bill: Why exactly?
- Short of electricity? Let’s think ahead
- Shutting the public out
- Sidewalk construction poked a hole
- Sidewalk mystery: Chasing a name
- Sidewalk name: Mystery no more
- Sign struggle — sigh! — ends
- Sign wavers: Will machines take over?
- Signal at Crocker: There’s been a setback
- Signal issue: “Old yellow or red…”
- Simpson Trail: Leaving corona news behind
- Site being prepared in North Albany
- Site on Pacific: Don’t get the wrong idea
- Site plan filed to remodel Albany car lot
- Site seen as valley’s link to big ports
- Site work, demolition to start at ‘Pheasant Run’
- Six apartments planned on East First
- Six initiatives: Cordier tries again
- Six ways to ease congestion on Hwy. 20
- Sixty degrees: So?
- Skip the news and watch a train go by
- Sky riddle: Eleven what?
- Slabs of concrete, and what they foretell
- Sleep driving case drags on
- Sleep-driving: “Not guilty!”
- Slow down for the deer
- Slow down for wildlife, too
- Slow down so he doesn’t get hit
- Slow going at the Queen Ave. crossing
- Slow on Spring Hill: Here’s why
- Small district’s water service is assured
- Small mystery: How come this puddle?
- Smart meters about to arrive
- Smart meters? Not yet
- Smashing the walls at old bank building
- Smelly sludge — a way forward?
- Smoke or no smoke, deliveries go on
- Smooth ride: How much longer?
- Smooth riding on new subdivision streets
- SnoTemp gets council’s support
- So it’s hot, and then there’s the climate
- So just what’s going on here?
- So what’s happening on Pirtle Drive?
- So what’s the stuff in those black tanks?
- So, what about that rising ocean level?
- Sobriety checkpoints? Better not
- Solar power plant proposed in South Linn
- Soles like the Grand Canyon: Why?
- Solving a winter debris problem
- Somebody once lived here
- Something for long nights
- Something to climb on at new park
- Something to look at downtown
- Something to smile about at Bowman Park
- Something to think about: ‘Unnecessary noise’
- Something’s new along Cox Creek
- Something’s new in Palestine
- Something’s pending at old Mega Foods
- Sorry, but the Cox Creek bridge again
- Sorry, but this is about … ahem … flushing
- Sound advice, suspect grammar
- South Albany fields: See them while you can
- South Albany gets a new gas station
- South Pacific bike lanes invite disaster
- South renovation calls for fences
- South’s field is getting there
- Spacious Deerfield Park due for an upgrade
- Speaking of First Lake: Missing the boat
- Special session: Not that grand
- Speed cameras won’t be all that picky
- Speed cameras: Looking at law change
- Speed challenge on Elm Street: A bit of fun
- Speed control, the low-cost approach
- Speed display gets a test on First
- Speed limit approved for NA’s Scenic Drive
- Speed sign on Second: Seeing no change
- Speed up or pull over
- Speed up that new fire station
- Speeds topped 100 mph on N. Albany Road
- Spending spring break at home
- Sports: Fun and games
- Sportsman’s Warehouse eyes Albany
- Spotlight on parks: Here’s Lexington
- Spreading the word on bridge, road work
- Spring 2023: Time to check on Bowers Rock
- Springtime at E.E. Wilson
- Springtime on Cox Creek (An update)
- Squalor on our streets: What must be done
- Squatters’ hideouts cleared of underbrush
- St. Francis comes up at city meeting
- St. Francis fix: ‘Financially unfeasible’
- St. Francis project cost stuns CARA board
- St. Francis project gets verbal support
- St. Francis project takes a step forward
- St. Francis restoration: What the numbers mean
- St. Francis: A new chapter starts downtown
- St. Francis: Another study coming
- Staff wants less height in 2 new buildings
- Stalled at Main Street: An update
- Starting a new year of ‘hh-today’
- Starting a street rebuild in Tree City USA
- State faults Albany council on old houses
- State gun bills watered down
- State lines: Let’s redraw
- State wouldn’t track you
- Station 11: My brief look around
- Station-Swanson link: the last piece
- Station-Swanson path is open
- Stay out of city court: Here’s why
- Staying out of trouble on flooded road
- Stealing shopping carts: This may stop it
- Still a railroad town after 152 years
- Still available, waiting for some kind of use
- Still boarded up but not forgotten
- Still dreaming: State of Jefferson
- Still for sale: Vacant Cumberland lot
- Still fumbling on guns, too
- Still fuzzy on racial preferences
- Still puzzled by roundabouts?
- Still seeing stars downtown
- Still shut out from Bowers Rock
- Still struggling with stinky sludge
- Still trying to make sense of this sign
- Still wondering about this bridge detail
- Stink solution proves elusive
- Stop taxing savings
- Stopped by a sign and threat of a fine
- Storm debris at Bryant; other parks worse
- Storm water problems? Tell the city
- Street appeal denied: Checking the scene
- Street fix: Under three years
- Street repairs and money woes
- Street scene: Why that ‘center’ line is off center
- Street sign update: That typo is no more
- Street trees on Second: Here’s an update
- Street work: Help on where to walk
- Streetscape benches, a placement dilemma
- Streetscape: CARA to reconstruct 7 blocks
- Streetscape: See the new trees
- Structural issues close downtown place
- Stuck in traffic: Get used to it
- Stuck on Queen, and seeing the danger
- Students offer daring downtown designs
- Students push back on new class schedule
- Students tackle bike path study
- Subdivider wins, ancient oaks lose
- Substation security: No climbing that fence
- Substation work looks ready to start
- Suddenly, a newly popular book
- Suggestion: Make this bulb-out easier to see
- Suit details city damage claims
- Summer concerts: Getting in takes preparation
- Summer on our roads: It can get messy
- Summertime is berry time
- Sunday evening on the Clark trail
- Sunday video: Cavorting canines
- Sundays at Hackleman: Pickleball
- Sunrise Park: Checking on progress
- Sunrise Park: Plan up for review
- Sunrise Park: Renovation in sight
- Sunrise upgrade: Pretty soon now
- Sunshine & a lower interest rate
- Sunshine & a lower interest rate
- Sunshine called for a ride
- Surpised by police presence on a quiet corner
- Surprise at the city EV charger: It works
- Surprise! The Earth continues
- Surprise: A reasonable gun bill
- Survey boosts Alb-Cor bike path
- Sustainability stalls in Independence
- Swanson paths: City applies rules
- Swifts so far avoid new roost
- Take a last look at Oak Grove School
- Take a last look at this ‘tunnel’
- Take a look at ‘new’ Palestine Church
- Take a look at Albany police site
- Take a look at Albany’s new fitness court
- Take a look at new BottleDrop
- Take a look at police building ideas
- Take a look at that lake behind a school
- Take a look at this carronade
- Take a look at this handy little RR crossing
- Take a ride on Lebanon’s new Old Mill Trail
- Take the lane, those symbols say
- Takena gravel bar: Getting it removed
- Takena Landing to get new dock
- Takena Landing: A gravel bar and boulders
- Taking a last look at those old beams
- Taking a look at Love’s in Millersburg
- Taking a walk on the Ellsworth Street Bridge
- Taking guns from violent men
- Taking Kmart’s place is … what?
- Taking the long view on a winter ride
- Taking the scenic route as Queen Ave. is closed
- Talking Waters: A little mystery and some news
- Talking Waters: Upkeep required
- Tall weeds? They can be kind of useful
- Taming our anti-truck trestle
- Target practice to escape from corona
- Tax break for the smell of fries
- Tax compression: A “loss” it’s not
- Tax limits are safe — for now
- Tax on gun sales helps keep it open
- Tax writers aim at coffee, old cars
- Taxes: Dems want still more
- Tempest tears through the west side
- Ten bucks for the ‘environment’
- Ten minutes to get back home
- Ten years later, it’s still a vacant lot
- Tennis anyone? At LBCC, rarely
- Tennis at West: Moving the courts
- Tennis versus weeds at LBCC
- Testing a wider, nicer Riverside Drive
- Thanks for a neighborhood tradition
- Thanks to whoever did the cleanup
- Thanksgiving’s over, but …
- That crazy coin trick
- That missing sign: What mystery?
- That old church: Still waiting
- That old RR track: Where it once led
- That old tank — it’s still there, unchanged
- That orange is for gas, not OSU
- That pesky little squiggle
- That poor postal kiosk, again
- That sad little bridge, still in need of repair
- That signal issue again… still
- That Spring Hill traffic oval …
- That urban ‘vandal’ has buck teeth
- That was quick: Flooding fixed
- That’s not art; how to fight back
- That’s not believable, Governor
- That’s some big oak log, lying there
- That’s supposed to be a public meeting?
- That’s supposed to be safer?
- That’s the sound of medical transport
- The ‘Fortmiller’ is ready for viewing
- The ‘Idaho stop’ stalls in state Senate
- The Albany scene: Moonlight movies
- The algae mystery: Swan vs. Waverly Lake
- The annual battle of the fallen leaves
- The Answer Man on Crocker Lane
- The Answer Man on WinCo plans
- The Answer Man: Signals on 34th
- The answer: Openness and candor
- The Benghazi story continues
- The Big Dig: One block’s done
- The Big Dig: When it will start
- The Big Trash Day Dilemma
- The bigger enemy is pain
- The Bikman penthouse: a closer look
- The Bikman penthouse: Story of a life
- The Birds: Shared scooters make Albany debut
- The blame for Benghazi
- The Blizzard of ’14
- The Bottle Bill at the time of Covid-19
- The Broadway pond: Following up
- The buy of the century?
- The case of the purloined bird food
- The case of the vanished Albany street
- The cause: An overturned gas can
- The champions of bureaucracy
- The changing face of Pacific/Ninth
- The changing scene near Bowman Park
- The children of Gaza
- The Clackamas ballot affair
- The cleanup never ends
- The cliff deal is no solution
- The climate ‘action’ we could use now
- The cold and dark can’t win
- The coming ban on plastic bags
- The Corps plans repeat in coming years
- The cost of decals? No reason to fret
- The cougar problem down south
- The council and pot: Groundhog Day
- The council on pigs: There’s a delay
- The crusades? A pointless comparison
- The day Albany Carousel will open
- The day the sweeper comes …
- The day this snake lucked out
- The deer and us
- The dreaded DD: ‘distracted driving’
- The drive for more housing: Two decisions
- The drone memo’s significance
- The emperor has spoken
- The end of old empty houses?
- The end of the Albany Wye?
- The endless possibilities of ‘may’
- The explanation: Why this canal was dry
- The exploitation of grief
- The final link to Albany Station
- The flaws in the cell phone ban
- The form says “Denied,” but why?
- The Fourth on Broadway
- The Fourth on Oak Street N.E.
- The future: EV chargers at apartments
- The goal: Higher property taxes
- The good news about spiders
- The good news on fuel
- The great pigeon mystery
- The gun issue: DeFazio responds
- The gym alternative
- The Idaho stop: Oregon may allow it here
- The King Griff Building’s changing face
- The Kitzhaber I like to remember
- The lady behind the ‘blessing box’
- The last days to see this historic site
- The latest addition to Albany’s industry
- The limits of automation
- The litter smokers leave behind
- The Loch Periwinkle monster? Not really
- The Malheur Gang as martyrs?
- The marijuana rebellion
- The mess on Cox Creek got worse
- The message is clear…
- The more renewables, the more we pay
- The mud flows in the Willamette, too
- The muddle over middle housing
- The mysterious case of the missing bolts
- The mystery of so many parked trailers
- The new ‘Old Book House’: It’s done
- The new America: Papers please!
- The new bag law: Getting customers prepared
- The Nike deal: A quest for certainty
- The Nike session — and an idea
- The Obama market slide
- The old church will get its steeple back
- The old Cumberland Church in lights
- The old Oregon Electric depot: Keeping track
- The old sources confirm: No ‘s’ on Lyon
- The other side of robot cars
- The pace of demolition: Keeping track
- The passing parade: Military gear
- The plastic bag ban after 2 years
- The power of lightning, but golf goes on
- The president “allows”?
- The price of overhead charm
- The proof is in a smooth ride
- The raccoon bill; squirrels next?
- The rain tax: An expense for some
- The riddle of the Baker Street rails
- The rising price of disposal
- The risk is pretty small; however …
- The risks of self-service: Really?
- The riverfront beat: A slight detour
- The riverfront’s my beat
- The same old Interstate Blues
- The school closure dilemma
- The sign is little, the message big
- The slow study of fast trains
- The solution to mail-vote worries: Drop boxes
- The sound of fun on the water: pretty loud
- The spread that disappeared: A mystery
- The St. Francis project: Taking a look
- The stark lesson of Malheur events
- The state in charge of childhood
- The story behind those riverfront pilings
- The switch that didn’t happen
- The tax on this house is WHAT?
- The things you can see on a bike ride
- The threat of surveillance: Does it work?
- The timing of cooling centers
- The transformation of N. Albany
- The tree that wouldn’t, didn’t die
- The trouble with narrow streets
- The trouble with people: the mess they leave
- The TSA and pocket knives
- The Union Pacific responds
- The Vic Atiyeh I remember
- The water rose, but not too high
- The Waverly Duck and bigger stories
- The Willamette: Why a ‘minus’?
- The work of a disgruntled beaver?
- The wye? The answer!
- Theft warnings: Now we get it
- Thefts in Adair: Better lock up
- There used to be a bridge here
- There used to be a grove of trees …
- There’s good news in rain, for now
- There’s hope in climate change, maybe
- There’s lighter news here: Path reopened
- There’s that *&%#@ bike again!
- These gulls waited in vain
- These ponds don’t talk …
- They don’t hear you coming
- They kept meeting in person during Covid
- They made it: New pavement complete on Queen
- Things have changed: A flag for June
- Things you see when you actually look
- Think about our wildlife in winter
- Think ahead to kids playing here in ’24
- Think of all that fuel going to waste
- Think of survival after big quake
- Thinking about the future on a hot day
- Thinking about those red-light cameras
- Thinking about, uh, Columbus Day
- Thinking ahead to 2064
- Thinking of bike tax on a New Year’s ride
- Thinking of carousel parking ideas
- Thirty seconds of anti-rain
- This ‘village’ still lacks a store
- This Albany lot proves impossible to sell
- This Albany trail stays ‘unimproved,’ for now
- This budget story saves you some time
- This bumpy ride has a point
- This case should be dropped
- This empty city lot awaits some use
- This fake holiday…
- This has nothing to do with volcanoes
- This is a … what exactly?
- This is what Albany wants to discourage
- This is what you call a light lunch
- This might sting a little …
- This murder needs solving
- This particular eyesore is gone
- This road: Let’s spell it like we say it
- This rosy glow grabs my attention
- This rural view is short-lived
- This shooting doesn’t fit
- This store chain likes to expand
- This story is getting to be timeless
- This the year for Edgewater Village?
- This time, the ospreys got there first
- This used to be a major Albany canal
- This woodsy site is zoned for housing
- Thornton Lake Area: Not forgotten
- Thornton natural area? It’ll be a while
- Those amber waves …
- Those blue containers?
- Those bugs: Back for the umpteenth year
- Those bumps on Lyon: the fix is coming
- Those holes in the road: Being fixed
- Those I-5 flags: Still tied to bridge screens
- Those Obamacare ads: “Huh?”
- Those old iron rails: Keep them, or what?
- Those pesky parking fees
- Those street costs would bite
- Those trees on Waverly are likely to go
- Those voltage regulators: Looks were an issue
- Thousands of years ago…
- Three letters on the asphalt: Puzzling it out
- Three things to notice at Albany Station
- Till next spring, then …
- Timber billion: How can, or will, state pay?
- Timber Lake has a job; it’s flood control
- Timberlab access deal saves farming district
- Time capsule: Hope of finding it dwindles
- Time change: Not everybody fell back
- Time change: Stuck with a dumb idea
- Time change: The glorious upside
- Time for a fascinating book
- Time for a tax complaint
- Time switch may make you sick
- Time to adjust the speed limit
- Time to revisit airport’s future, again?
- Timing: An hour off at Albany Station
- Tire store delay: Here’s an explanation
- To a roadside stand on Thanksgiving
- To fix the lights on those steel flowers
- To keep trains running: Trestle work
- To keep us from slip-sliding …
- To really see this, you must get close
- To save the trains, buy a ticket
- To stop the virus, let state tell us more
- To the Legislature: Restrain yourself
- Tobacco banned — again
- Today’s mystery quiz: What’s that ruin?
- Today’s quiz: What sort of bug is this?
- Today’s topic: Congestion and money for roads
- Tolls could make congestion worse
- Tom Cordier challenges ballot title
- Too helpless for everyday life?
- Too little space for all that stuff
- Too much sun? Aha, a hat!
- Top jobs at OSU: Nice pay
- Tough choice: Stop or roll through?
- Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?
- Touring a neighborhood while we still can
- Toward a climate dictatorship?
- Tower clocks at Albany Station: Aaaargh!
- Tower clocks: How about a permanent fix?
- Towing: Linn board shuns setting rates
- Townhouse talk: A loss of local control
- Tracking students? Maybe…
- Traffic beat: Our new “ovalabout”
- Traffic change a challenge for Midway Farms
- Traffic fines — because they can
- Traffic fixes: A couple of ideas
- Traffic jam: Disgruntled in Corvallis
- Traffic jams on I-5: More signs?
- Traffic on 2nd: How much, how fast?
- Traffic panel to take up Waverly zone
- Traffic tie-ups end (we hope)
- Traffic-easing solutions worth trying
- Trail: May the opponents reconsider
- Train cutback blamed on COVID-19
- Train depot addition: What it’s for
- Train horn complaint lands at city council
- Train service to increase
- Train station sites compared
- Train study: another inch forward
- Train temporarily stranded at Albany Station
- Trains and signs: The latest on Albany Station
- Trains blocked by sewer work? Not really
- Trains or water: A matter of priorities
- Transparent state? Not so much!
- Trash cans in the bike lane: A common lament
- Trash disposal price hike sails through council
- Trash patrol: One man’s quest to tidy up
- Trashed relic of rail history exposed
- Tree cutters at work downtown
- Tree cutting under way at riverfront
- Tree disease claims Albany landmark elm
- Tree protection? Albany doesn’t have much
- Tree wells: a streetscape update
- Trees come down at National Energy Lab
- Trees down, apartments are next
- Trees wilt along North Albany Road
- Trestle crashes: No more excuses
- Trestle traps another truck; blame GPS
- Trestle: Simple solution isn’t feasible
- Tricky signal tests patience on Pacific
- Trimming trees to preserve the view
- Tropical plants around here?
- Trouble in parks: City proposes officer to patrol
- Trouble on the Cox Creek path…
- Trouble spot on 20 waits for a fix
- Truax Island: Foreboding vibes
- Truck speed change approved
- Truck stop deal being worked out
- Truck stop update: Slow going
- Truck stop work: Not yet, but soon
- Truck stop: Highway deal reached
- Truck stop: Why ODOT appealed
- Truck-eating trestle gets council look
- Trump would close Albany lab
- Try this new way to pay for roads
- Try to hear the waters talking
- Try to reduce roadkills
- Try to save some of that water?
- Tuition and DLs, but no guns
- Turkey update: Are there more of them?
- Turning & churning: Albany hydro resumes
- Turning a dirt trail into ‘community path’
- Two Albany ODOT projects: Why the delay
- Two bike routes: Where we stand
- Two CARA projects seek extensions
- Two cougar bills: Another round
- Two council items: gun rights and election
- Two councilors question speed camera plan
- Two downtown banks: Keeping track
- Two downtown projects get CARA support
- Two little requests get city hearings
- Two Madison intersections get new color
- Two minutes of no corona news
- Two new dwellings replace a ruin left by fire
- Two official languages?
- Two retailers join Albany ‘BottleDrop’
- Two smiling faces in law enforcement
- Two street projects to benefit Albany school kids
- Two trains, two tracks, one crossing
- Two years later: A look at completed site
- Two years on: Water Gardens still in danger
- Two-way conversion? They’ll talk about it
- Two-way streets downtown? Forget about it!
- Typos can happen to enyone …
- U.S. violence is down, far down
- Undaunted by huge remodeling job
- Under canal’s languid flow, an issue lurks
- Under construction: Truck/rail reloading hub
- Under the overpass, response to a spill
- Underpass incident ends with a shooting
- Unhoused in cars: Looking for a place to park
- Union drops hospital initiatives
- Unique place: Rail, river and new housing
- Unlawful to get out of the rain?
- Unlike Carthage, this is still there
- Unlocking the grounds when school is out
- Unloved and ignored: Our poor apostrophe!
- Unsightly algae? Nature took care of it
- Unsolved murder: Roadside reminder fades
- Unsolved mystery: Book in the wall
- Unsolved: Shopping cart mess
- UO: Where the money flows
- Up and down the new Riverpark steps
- Up for yet another train-watching episode?
- Up in the December sky, men at work
- Up on Thanksgiving
- UP permit issue stalls new path
- UP to replace trestle on Periwinkle Creek
- UP’s bridge job on Cox Creek: $2.2 million
- Upcoming: Truck speed decision
- Update on “warming’
- Update on Edgewater Village
- Update on the supermarket beat
- Update on Waverly Lake, and more …
- Update: Action due on pot bills
- Update: Ban smoking in parks?
- Update: Chain saws versus blackouts
- Update: Cougars in legislation
- Update: Gun talk’s consequences
- Update: How soon is soon?
- Update: Rescuing an old house
- Update: What’s up with Henderson Park?
- Upside down: Council punts on gun rights
- Urban renewal tax fix falls short
- US Bank says it will leave downtown
- Use those dual lanes while you can
- Using sense on security
- Vacant city lot remains, well, undecided
- Vacant land on First Avenue sees change
- Vagrancy laws stall at city council
- Vagrancy: Enforcement is next
- Vagrants, doors and city rules
- Vagrants, vandals ruining new path
- Vandals, not liberators
- Verdict on new street: Well, it’s smooth
- Verdict on two canal bridges: In OK shape
- Verizon customers skip hearing
- Veto mascot bill? Go ahead!
- Vintage trees and rare apples: Take a look
- Vinyl window issue goes to Albany council
- Vinyl windows? Landmarks panel says no
- Visiting Bowers Rock on a nice summer day
- Visiting Independence and ‘Station 203’
- Visiting Waverly Lake on a very fine day
- Visualize this church as a county building
- Vote was two-thirds anti-Trump
- Voters’ Pamphlet: We’re in trouble
- Voting — or not
- Voting delays? An easy fix!
- Voting: Why you can trust the count
- Wage law: Tough choices indeed
- Waiting for ‘augmented reality’
- Waiting for a green that never comes
- Waiting for new bridge: three more years
- Waiting for Oregon’s first Hobby Lobby
- Waiting for two restaurant projects
- Waive fee to appeal? Council says no
- Waking up to costs of street repairs
- Walden’s message: Worth hearing
- Walk faster, Grandma: Seconds count!
- Wandering around ‘The Banks’ at opening
- Want privacy? It’s easy
- Want to buy a surplus concrete ‘bunker’?
- Want to buy an old church?
- Want to relax? Watch this …
- Wanted: A buyer to rescue this old house
- Wanted: North Albany Park ideas
- Warm welcome for new chief
- Warplane display: An airport update
- Was this a sign of something?
- Wasted parking spaces? Not here
- Wastewater woes: Millions at stake
- Watch and listen to finalists for GAPS super
- Watch it when you step outside
- Watch out, the lawmakers are back
- Watching a big bird at Periwinkle Park
- Watching a little logjam grow bigger
- Watching a log train being built
- Watching Oak Grove being razed
- Watching sports fields grow at Albany Y
- Watching the debt grow
- Watching the water rise, slowly
- Watching you: Eyes above downtown corner
- Water and Hill: What’s going on
- Water Ave.: A future ‘plaza street’ in the smoke
- Water Avenue crossings: No real choice
- Water Avenue: A key in riverfront project
- Water Avenue: A street solution?
- Water for wildlife? Question answers itself
- Water Gardens: Talking again
- Water intakes detect no fuel
- Water plan: Study replacing Vine Street plant
- Water still high? Yup.
- Waterfront conversion: Phase 2 approved
- Waterfront Project shows visible progress
- Waterfront Project: 2 months to grand opening
- Waterfront Project: Checking on stage etc.
- Waterfront Project: The work that remains
- Waverly Duck: Repairs are ‘doable’
- Waverly Lake algae ‘harvesting’ delayed
- Waverly Lake algae: How about this idea?
- Waverly Lake gets council’s attention, briefly
- Waverly Lake takes care of itself
- Waverly Lake: Most of the algae mess gone
- Waverly Lake: Why equipment was off
- Waverly paddle boats? Not this year
- Waverly ticket: Story develops a twist
- Way cleared for signals at Crocker, Gibson Hill
- Wayfinding price found way too stiff
- We elected this government
- We road users have a sweet deal
- We should have listened to her
- Weather extremes? Well…
- Web: One-sided on Millersburg power
- Website lists Albany as a safe city
- Wedding cakes and free speech
- Weed job done, lake harvesters move on
- Weed law: Initiative vs. local option
- Weeding of Waverly to be done annually
- Weekend quick point: Love the library
- Weekly ‘organic waste’ pickup likely in Albany
- Weekly yard debris service proposed
- Weekly yard debris? Not in Albany
- Weight and see: Highway scales
- Weird vandalism: What’ll they think of next?
- Welcome this ‘climate change’
- Welcome to Albany: Sign’s getting replaced
- Well, that was quick: Three old houses razed
- Wendy’s or not? Here’s the answer
- West’s spiffy front also has a new address
- Wet pavement: Can we call it ‘fossil art’?
- Wet street: A clue in 1984 report
- Wetlands law: Let’s exempt cities
- Wetlands snag held up apartments, now resolved
- Wetlands: Another needless cost
- Wetlands: Remind you of Kafka?
- What ‘quiet’ will cost: $700K in Covid cash
- What a ban on fossil fuel would mean
- What a bike trail should be
- What a good old bike can do for you
- What a pile of fentanyl pills looks like
- What a tiger and bike have in common
- What about all those left-over leaf piles?
- What about that ‘east anchor’?
- What about that call center? Read on
- What about this fence? Well, let’s see
- What all that earth moving is about
- What an obvious scam attempt!
- What an old envelope can start
- What bike lane, where?
- What CARA should do
- What Christmas looks like …
- What corona may do to this library
- What crash reports should tell us
- What Cylvia wants: Oregon ‘GPI’
- What developer envisions in NA
- What do they mean by a ‘cracked track’?
- What does Measure 89 change?
- What does this tell book thieves?
- What forced pay hike would cost
- What happened here? A fire on June 10
- What happened to ‘equal pay’?
- What happened to ‘nine to five’?
- What happened to station’s sign?
- What happened to tolerance?
- What heat wave?
- What I see: This time, ducks in a ditch
- What I think about pot
- What lightning did in Riverside Cemetery
- What Oregon says on vagrant camps
- What our governor’s reopening plan lacks
- What our state lawmakers want
- What saving old church might cost
- What stop sign, where?
- What sunrise? Darkness in the morning
- What the ‘plaza street’ may look like
- What the hell, it’s only money!
- What the numbers say about corona
- What they call the pope
- What they mean by ‘failure’s no option’
- What they’re building off N.W. 24th
- What they’re building on Airport Road
- What this big sign bridge cost ODOT
- What this says about some among us
- What time change? Just say no
- What to call Albany streets
- What to do about taggers
- What to read
- What was Corvallis PD doing there?
- What was that? Sunshine!
- What was up at Talking Water Gardens?
- What we learned from the eclipse
- What we’ve been waiting for: Wendy’s
- What will become of Mega Foods site?
- What will become of this building?
- What will become of this former bank?
- What will replace trees on 2nd Avenue?
- What you can see looking down
- What you see on the Perwinkle Bikepath
- What’ll happen with this old house?
- What’re those? Answer: Look it up!
- What’s ‘wrong’ with this scene?
- What’s ahead on Bottle Bill
- What’s all that greenness cost?
- What’s behind rain tax law’s repeal
- What’s being built: Just check the sign
- What’s being developed here? Let’s see…
- What’s going in there? Now we know
- What’s growing in this field? Now we know
- What’s in it for citizens?
- What’s liberty when safety tops all?
- What’s new at Bowers Rock: An update
- What’s next at NA County Park
- What’s next for the St. Francis?
- What’s next on Pirtle Drive: Honeybees
- What’s often missing: Parking for bikes
- What’s proposed at 4th and Calapooia
- What’s that big concrete shell at West?
- What’s that construction on Old Salem?
- What’s that smell? It’ll soon be gone
- What’s that up there?
- What’s that? Another construction site…
- What’s the deal on natural area?
- What’s the deal with these stacks?
- What’s this if not gun registration?
- What’s this, you ask? And the answer…
- What’s this? A big party downtown!
- What’s this? It’s a big new sewer main
- What’s this? It’s horse chestnut season
- What’s to ‘celebrate’ here?
- What’s to become of this vacant lot?
- What’s up at Edgewater Village?
- What’s up at Folsom Dam?
- What’s up at former Hertz lot? Let’s see
- What’s up with ‘The Banks’? It’s not clear
- What’s up with ex-restaurant? Let’s see
- What’s up with Senate gun bills?
- What’s up with the tower clocks? Take a guess
- What’s up with Wells Fargo lot: An update
- What’s with the Halloween gore?
- What’s with these rail cars?
- What’s with this? Now, the answer
- What, no ‘rational purpose’?
- What? A traffic jam here?
- What? Yes, our cooling climate!
- Whatever happened to “cruising”?
- Whatever happened to the Chipotle plan?
- When a tree gets too big and destructive
- When automobiles had class
- When autumn leaves refuse to leave
- When bugging is dumb
- When darkness falls at 97321
- When it’s hot, worry about HB 2021
- When it’s icy: Thoughts about heat
- When it’s someone you know…
- When ladders are not enough
- When Millersburg was born
- When Novak’s hopes to reopen
- When power fails, tell us why
- When the Alsea Highway will be closed
- When the big one hits
- When the bin’s full, stop working
- When the Bottle Drop looks full, push
- When the crossing gates come down …
- When the ride seems like a cure
- When warnings lose their sting
- When watering concrete is not a waste
- When will bridge work actually start?
- When will the mail stop coming?
- When you can ride Albany Carousel
- When you can’t see clearly or far
- When you see this, stop and buy a cup
- When you want to know what’s going on
- When you wish for another lane, or bridge
- When you’re stuck at a signal …
- Where a bicyclist was killed
- Where Albany plans for lots of growth
- Where bike path ends, solution in the works
- Where bunker sits, dwellings are proposed
- Where courtesy and common sense combine
- Where cyclist died, a ‘ghost bike’
- Where did the bike lane go?
- Where did the ditch go?
- Where downtown EV chargers will go
- Where free enterprise starts
- Where have all the bullets gone?
- Where should the cop shop be?
- Where teen burglars were stopped
- Where the bear runs now
- Where the good berries are
- Where the need to clean up never ends
- Where the new carousel will turn
- Where the old church might end up
- Where the sidewalk ends, for now
- Where the water rates a ‘fair’
- Where they put the muck from Waverly Lake
- Where we went wrong: Computers
- Where’s the fire, Gov?
- Where’s the river in these views?
- While we wait, a refresher on spelling
- Who done it: Bird feeder mystery
- Who knows who killed Jakhob?
- Who observes Bryant Park centennial? Just me
- Who shot the sign?
- Who wants the former Wells Fargo lot?
- Whom we should thank for new schools
- Whoosh! Leaf vacuum in action
- Why a photo of this old bike? Because…
- Why a simple table would work better
- Why Albany playgrounds remain off limits
- Why America can’t fix its bridges
- Why an expensive street job here?
- Why are turkeys here? For safety, man!
- Why background-check bill deserved to die
- Why ban weddings on farms?
- Why Bryant Park has remained closed
- Why camera tickets soared in ’17
- Why Christmas snowflakes are still up
- Why city’s creeks are still flowing
- Why Corvallis city utilities cost less
- Why dig so deep? Because …
- Why do turkeys cross the street?
- Why gates are still closed at Bryant Park
- Why Gibson Hill signals are still dark
- Why hearings on steps, door? It’s the code
- Why is this Albany’s ‘Main Street’?
- Why July is a lost month
- Why LBCC pickleball venue remains shut
- Why no tax revolution?
- Why no ties: They bind?
- Why old OER railway depot is locked up
- Why omit Albany from this freeway sign?
- Why Oregon cyclists have it pretty good
- Why park’s lawn is tan: A little story
- Why pickleball courts have been delayed
- Why saw off the tops of riverbank trees?
- Why sheriffs speak up
- Why signals remain wrapped
- Why so close? Now we know
- Why some Albany streets don’t get fixed
- Why state of Jefferson won’t happen
- Why Talking Gardens have less water
- Why the ‘blessing box’ is gone
- Why the ‘road closed’ sign is there
- Why the Benton blackout of KOIN?
- Why the big worry about ADUs?
- Why the daytime lighting?
- Why the path would be better
- Why the public has not panicked over corona
- Why the Queen Ave. job has been delayed
- Why the red pavement? The answer is here
- Why there’s debris in highway bike lanes
- Why there’s no more trash along this creek
- Why there’s steam erupting off Clark Path
- Why these old houses can’t be saved
- Why these street trees have to go
- Why these two houses are so narrow
- Why they can swim here
- Why they put up with this
- Why this boardwalk is there (version 2)
- Why this father is demonstrating
- Why this has been taking so long
- Why this new housing is worthy of note
- Why this rider is in new Albany mural
- Why this widening? Because …
- Why those three big trees were felled
- Why thwart state dispensary law?
- Why townhouse project may have to wait
- Why vote in a one-party state?
- Why we don’t charge cyclists more
- Why we need the mileage tax
- Why we plant oaks
- Why West’s new courts are locked again
- Widening the rest of Riverside has to wait
- Wider shoulders: Maybe next year
- Wild turkeys on parade in West Albany
- Will ‘scenic’ label ruin Highway 34?
- Will a mileage tax be mandatory?
- Will Bird scooters return? Wait and see
- Will dog park cancel Albany rally?
- Will escape still be possible?
- Will Hwy. 20 issues ever be solved?
- Will rules doom pot dispensaries?
- Will this fence keep anyone out?
- Will this tricky corner ever be fixed?
- Willamette revival one house at a time
- Willamette signs: What they mean
- Willamette viewpoint is worth your visit
- Willamette water quality: Update the info
- Wind and sea, and research information too
- Wind farms versus eagles
- Winter at Waverly Lake: Waiting for aeration
- Winter snow: Let’s remember the past
- Winter starts as Bryant Park fills, on cue
- Winter, sun and the level of the sea
- Wise up and avoid trouble
- Wishes he had a couple of oars
- With ‘Marvin’s Garden’ closed, now what?
- With library closed, rereading an old gem
- With new radar, speeders may get warnings
- With Riley’s closed, building’s future unknown
- Wondering about a dead phone-wire box
- Wondering about color at new West gym
- Wondering about drones & RC aircraft
- Wondering about physics while fixing a flat
- Wondering about Queen crossing upgrade
- Wondering about SUVs behind this wire
- Wood-chip path: Not great for bikes
- Woodland Square on track to start
- Woodland Square: An update
- Work at corner site: Waiting for permits
- Work at Queen crossing: Perhaps in 2022
- Work begins on Riverside Drive
- Work off Salem Avenue: Checking it out
- Work on Ellsworth Bridge: Here’s an update
- Work on the rails never stops …
- Work starts on Dave Clark lights
- Work starts on the old Safeway
- Work upgrades trestle on P&W line
- Working on a NA traffic solution
- Working on the railroad at Davidson Street
- Worth a stop in Adair
- Worth a visit any time, even in winter
- Worth stopping for, a tempting sight
- Would lower fees make houses affordable?
- Wreck kept the mail off limits
- Written in chalk, a cautionary note
- Wrong again, Mr. President
- Wrong move: Postal Service sues
- Wrong rebates in Oregon road bill
- Wyden’s O&C bill: Too little
- Yard debris issue coming up again
- Yard debris: Albany OKs weekly collection
- Yes, Sybaris owners are buying OER station
- Yes, that’s what is being built there
- Yet another worry?
- YMCA demolishes vacant former jerky store
- You can buy this ‘green’ project
- You can ignore litter only so long
- You don’t see any water, do you?
- You might call this ‘CARA Corner’
- You’re advised: There’s smog in the air
- Your legacy at Monteith Park, for a price
- Ziply Fiber working to hook up Albany
- Zoning for climate: A questionable quest
- Zoning: Neighbors get another shot
- Zoning: The fix falls short
